[Pkg-fonts-devel] Please remove CIDfonts function from x-ttcidfont-conf

[Hideki Yamane]

Package: x-ttcidfont-conf
Version: 27

Hi,
 
 I met a bug when configure x-ttcidfont-conf package, too. see below.

Unpacking replacement x-ttcidfont-conf ...
Setting up x-ttcidfont-conf (27) ...
Updating font configuration of x-ttcidfont-conf...
Cleaning up category cmap..
Cleaning up category cid..
Cleaning up category truetype..
Updating category truetype..
Updating category cid..
Updating category cmap..
Can't exec "/usr/bin/mkcfm": No such file or directory at /var/lib/defoma/scripts/x-ttcidfont-conf.defoma line 791.


 Since mkcfm is removed from X packages because of its license, CID related
 function in x-ttcidfont-conf does NOT work now.
 
 And upstream X.org says "CIDfonts are obsolete, so mkcfm is deprecated."
 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5553

 Yes, CIDfonts (and NEWCIDfonts) will be replaced to OpenType format fonts
 (if there is OpenType font package in Debian, its name would be otf-<fontname>,
  like otf-thai-tlwg package).
 
 Summary
  - mkcfm is non-free
  - X.org think CIDfonts are obsolete

 So we should remove CIDfont related code from this utility (and maybe 
 change its package name(x-tt"cid"font-conf). 

 If we want to use CIDfont, they upstream says that we convert it to 
 OpenType or something (however, I don't know how to do it).

-- 
Regards,

 Hideki Yamane
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