> Original Message
> Subject: Re: font policy changes
> From: Julien Cristau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Thu, July 17, 2008 1:38 am
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], debian-mentors@lists.debian.org
>
> On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 00
On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 00:19:39 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> What I meant by "don't work" is that, as you mention, these two options
> are no-ops.
>
> According to the update-fonts-dir(1) man page, these options should not
> be no-ops:
> ===
> update-fonts-dir creates a fonts.di
> Original Message
> Subject: Re: font policy changes
> From: Julien Cristau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Wed, July 16, 2008 8:47 am
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], debian-mentors@lists.debian.org
>
> On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 08
On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 08:37:12 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Thank you. I can write a proposed addition to the Policy Manual for
> TrueType fonts after I'm done with the current package unless someone
> else wants to do it. The "update-fonts-dir" utility currently only
> handles fonts in t
> Original Message
> Subject: Re: font policy changes
> From: Josselin Mouette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Wed, July 16, 2008 4:20 am
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], debian-mentors@lists.debian.org
>
> The font caches should be au
Le dimanche 13 juillet 2008 à 21:16 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] a
écrit :
> 4) What are the preferred steps for registering a TrueType font in
> Debian? It is outside the X11 directory structure, and depends on the
> TrueType font server. GNOME recognizes a newly installed TrueType font
> but is the
Julien Cristau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Maybe HOME was still set to the user's home dir? If XAUTHORITY isn't
> set Xlib looks in $HOME/.Xauthority, so that may work depending how you
> get root.
Ah, XAUTHORITY was set. Thank you. I didn't know about that.
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Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECT
On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 08:50:57 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Julien Cristau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > It will always fail, because the user running the script (root) won't
> > normally have access to the X server.
>
> See, I thought that too, and then I tried it and it seemed to work fine.
OoO Lors de la soirée naissante du lundi 14 juillet 2008, vers 17:50,
Russ Allbery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> disait :
>> It will always fail, because the user running the script (root) won't
>> normally have access to the X server.
> See, I thought that too, and then I tried it and it seemed to work
Julien Cristau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Sun, Jul 13, 2008 at 22:13:27 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>>> 3) Even if "mkfontdir" were invoked directly or if it's okay to give
>>> "update-fonts-dir" an absolute path (in which case its man page needs to
>>> be updated
> Original Message
> Subject: Re: font policy changes
> From: Julien Cristau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Mon, July 14, 2008 2:26 am
> To: Russ Allbery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED],
> [EMAIL PROTECTED],debian-mentors@lists.
On Sun, Jul 13, 2008 at 22:13:27 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>
> > 3) Even if "mkfontdir" were invoked directly or if it's okay to give
> > "update-fonts-dir" an absolute path (in which case its man page needs to
> > be updated and the warning removed), isn't it also ad
> Original Message
> Subject: Re: font policy changes
> From: Russ Allbery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Sun, July 13, 2008 10:13 pm
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], debian-mentors@lists.debian.org,
> "Anthony Fok" <[EMAIL
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> 3) Even if "mkfontdir" were invoked directly or if it's okay to give
> "update-fonts-dir" an absolute path (in which case its man page needs to
> be updated and the warning removed), isn't it also advisable to run
> "xset fp rehash" in postinst and postrm scripts? That
I am wrapping up the Debian packages (font + sources + binary utilities
package) for the GNU Unifont. I believe that some things in the Debian
Policy Manual version 3.8.0.1, 2008-06-05, concerning fonts are
outdated. Comments and suggestions are welcome. I'm running the stable
Etch 4.0r3 release
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