[Pkg-fonts-devel] RFC: t1-urw-garamondno8 fonts for TeX and X

[Paul Wise]

2009/8/20 Danai SAE-HAN (韓達耐) <danai.sae-han at edpnet.be>:

>  - I think Debian is indeed phasing out support for defoma.  At
> least, there has been a request from Paul Wise to remove the
> dependency on defoma for several packages (see [1]).

The plan for that is here:

http://wiki.debian.org/OldPkgRemovals#defoma

The rationale is that it is unmaintained and Debian-specific, and
there is a cross-distro, maintained alternative that is already in
Debian: fontconfig.

> [1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?submitter=pabs%40debian.org,
> #540763 and up.

This would have been a better link:

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?users=pabs@debian.org;tag=defoma-removal

-- 
bye,
pabs

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