On Mon, Apr 17, 2006 at 02:24:21AM +1000, Drew Parsons wrote: > Painfully, we may have to proceed without freetype support in Xprint > after all.
AIUI, the non-freeness issue I raised on xorg-modular, would certainly violate the DFSG? > After applying the libxfont patch, Xprt is able to start, and partially > works. However as soon as I try to print, accessing a truetype font, > Xprt crashes with > > Fatal server error: > PS DDX internal error while converting FreeType font > '/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/c0648bt_.pfb' to PS Type1, error=11 > > This error does not occur with 7.1 (cvs) libraries. The specific one > which prevents me from uploading Xprint from cvs is xfixes. cvs > requires xfixes4 while X11R7.0 only provides xfixes3. > > There are a couple of alternative ways to proceed: > > [...] > > I haven't tried 3) since I assume the Xorg developers made the xserver > explicitly depend on xfixes4 for a reason. However it's possible that > reason applies to some other part of the server code not affecting > Xprint. > > I'll sleep over whether 3) is viable. Besides, if the underlying bug > (assumed fixed in cvs) is in libxfonts, then uploading a cvs Xprint > won't help anyway. Indeed, a cvs version with a dodgy workaround for > xfixes4 does crash. I'm not certain that a better xfixes4 fix would > change that. > > This will all clear up much more easily once Debian has upgraded to > X11R7.1. Right. Given they're modules, an upload of just the newer versions of x11proto-fixes and libxfont could be done? This is, after all, the Grand Unified New Modular Reality. :) Cheers, Daniel
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