[Debian GNUstep maintainers] Bug#542334: Bug#542334: gnustep-back-common: please remove dependency on defoma

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On Wed, 2009-08-19 at 08:43 +0300, Yavor Doganov wrote:

> ...the art backend, which is the default (both upstream and in Debian)
> needs all font descriptions in the .nfont format.  So we have to look
> how to generate these files with the fc-* tools only, and preferrably
> add a triggerized regeneration when a font is installed or removed.

Could the art backend not be patched to use libfontconfig instead of the
fc-* tools?

How do other distributions deal with the art backend not having access
to .nfont files? Perhaps there are some patches or scripts Debian could
steal for either generating .nfont files or directly talking to
fontconfig?

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