[Debian-in-workers] Draft for ttf-indic-fonts restructuring

[Vasudev Kamath]

On 14:39 Sat 14 May     , Mahesh T. Pai wrote:
> 
>  > pkg-ruby-extras team i.e having transitional packages which will
>  > depend on new packages and which can be slowly removed from debian
>  > archive later.
> 
> A more tricky question:-
> 
> If I install foo-font; how will the system deal with other fonts
> installed by ttf-blah-fonts?


Well I just forgot but its simple the new package will have Replaces:
Conflicts: Provides: which can handle the installed
ttf-<language>-fonts

For Eg. fonts-malayalam will have

Replaces: ttf-malayalam-fonts
Conflicts: ttf-malayalam-fonts
Provides: ttf-malayalam-fonts

so when you install this apt will take care of removing the existing
ttf-<language>-fonts cleanly and install fonts-malayalam

> Still more tricky situation:-
> 
> What about 
> 
> /usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-<lang>-font directories on older
> systems?

As I said the above conditions will take care of this and the
directories will be removed.

Also forgot to put the link to pkg-fonts-devel list thread here it is

http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-fonts-devel/2011-May/006597.html


Regards
-- 
Vasudev Kamath
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