[Pkg-fonts-devel] Dropping defoma use in TTF/OTF font packages?

Paul Wise pabs at debian.org
Sun Nov 15 07:06:53 UTC 2009


On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 2:35 PM, Christian Perrier <bubulle at debian.org> wrote:

> Great. Josselin (or Paul Wise), could you give a short advice on these
> changes:
>
> svn+ssh://svn.debian.org/svn/pkg-fonts/packages/ttf-dejavu/trunk
>
> If they seem OK to you, we'll propagate such changes to other font
> packages maintained by the font team along with changes such as swith
> to 3.0 source format.
>
> Thanks in advance if you can take a few minutes for this. Your advice
> has already been very important to make this move towards the death of
> defoma..:-)

Since the ttf-dejavu defoma hints result in the following being added
to the fontconfig configuration, the changes in SVN are not enough,
unless you think the hints were wrong in the first place.

   <alias>
      <family>sans-serif</family>
      <default><family>DejaVu-Sans</family></default>
   </alias>

If installing a font modifies /etc/fonts/conf.d/30-defoma.conf (which
is a symlink to /var/lib/defoma/fontconfig.d/fonts.conf), then those
modifications need to be added to a file
/etc/fonts/conf.avail/<priority>-<package>.conf and a symlink added in
the /etc/fonts/conf.d/ directory.

In addition, where does rm_conffile come from??

-- 
bye,
pabs

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