reopen 363991 done Hi,
I have been using the following setting in ~/.Xresources for years now: XTerm*font: -misc-fixed-*-*-*-*-20-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-2 That font used to be in xfonts-base-transcoded, but that package is now missing. removals.txt lists it, but both its listings are "NVIU", which is clearly not true in this case. http://wiki.debian.org/NewInEtch says "Etch is the first fully UTF-8 Debian release, so there's no version of xfonts-base with legacy encodings anymore" - but is not an explanation, because the existence of UTF-8 stuff simply does not preclude the existence of ISO 8859-2 stuff. I found bug #363991, where it is claimed that the transcoded fonts are included in the original font package, but that is apparently not true, and the version of xfonts-base is the same in etch and in sid (1:1.0.0-4). Indeed, its description says: | This package contains primarily fonts in the ISO 10646-1 and ISO 8859-1 | encodings, to conserve disk space. (A small selection of fonts in ISO | 8859-8, JIS-X0208.1983, JIS-X0208.1976, and GB2312.1980 fonts are also | included.) For other encodings, see the xfonts-base-transcoded package. Can we please have this sarge->etch regression fixed? This fix alone would be harmless enough to be included in a point release, even. BTW, the copyright file in xfonts-75dpi-transcoded does not mention the location of the upstream sources, which is a violation of http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-docs.html#s-copyrightfile ("the copyright file must say where the upstream sources (if any) were obtained"). That also makes it harder to check if these files can be found somewhere upstream (and repackaged). Please Cc: replies. TIA. -- 2. That which causes joy or happiness. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
