[Pkg-fonts-devel] Bug#507427: fontforge.desktop file is incorrect/incomplete

Matt Chisholm matt at theory.org
Mon Dec 1 08:38:26 UTC 2008


Package: fontforge
Version: 0.0.20080429-1
Severity: normal
Tags: patch


The fontforge.desktop file created by Debian is incorrect.  It does
not include the mime-types that fontforge can open.  This means that
Gnome and KDE cannot know to offer FontForge as an option for opening
FontForge's own SFD format, or for TrueType, OpenType or PostScript
fonts.

The following line needs to be added to the fontforge.desktop file
that Debian includes:

MimeType=application/vnd.font-fontforge-sfd;application/x-font-ttf;application/x-font-type1;application/x-font-bdf;application/x-font-pcf;application/x-font-tex;

The source package includes it's own fontforge.desktop file in
Packages/fontforge.desktop.  This file includes the mime-types that
Fontforge supports. 

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers intrepid-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'intrepid-updates'), (500, 'intrepid-security'), (500, 'intrepid-backports'), (500, 'intrepid')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.27-9-generic (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages fontforge depends on:
ii  libc6           2.8~20080505-0ubuntu7    GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libfreetype6    2.3.7-2ubuntu1           FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii  libgif4         4.1.6-4                  library for GIF images (library)
ii  libice6         2:1.0.4-1                X11 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii  libjpeg62       6b-14                    The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG 
ii  libpng12-0      1.2.27-1                 PNG library - runtime
ii  libsm6          2:1.0.3-2                X11 Session Management library
ii  libspiro0       20071029-2               a library for curve design
ii  libtiff4        3.8.2-11                 Tag Image File Format (TIFF) libra
ii  libuninameslist 0.0.20060907-2           a library of Unicode annotation da
ii  libx11-6        2:1.1.5-2ubuntu1         X11 client-side library
ii  libxml2         2.6.32.dfsg-4ubuntu1.1   GNOME XML library
ii  python2.5       2.5.2-11.1ubuntu1        An interactive high-level object-o
ii  zlib1g          1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-12ubuntu1 compression library - runtime

fontforge recommends no packages.

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