[Pkg-fonts-devel] Status of package modernization and defoma drop work

Arne Goetje arne at ubuntu.com
Tue Jul 6 01:13:07 UTC 2010


On 07/05/2010 01:22 PM, Christian PERRIER wrote:
> I can't really explain the benefit of dropping defoma except by
> explaining that it is a piece of old crap that GUI specialists seem to
> agree became that it became useless over time..:-)... It's a bit short
> argument for a post to d-d-a, though..:)

Well, we got bug reports in Ubuntu, that the font now don't work anymore 
in legacy X application, such as fontforge. They just can't find the 
font for the UI anymore. How to deal with those?

Cheers
Arne



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