[Pkg-fonts-devel] Request for review/sponsorship. ITP #511036

Christian Perrier bubulle at debian.org
Wed Dec 2 04:36:23 UTC 2009


Quoting Paul Wise (pabs at debian.org):
> On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 7:58 PM,  <simon at ochsenreither.de> wrote:
> 
> > c) What are the dependencies/suggestions in control? I have seen packages
> > which suggest x-ttcidfont-conf | fontoconfig, others which don't suggest
> > anything, etc.
> 
> Please don't suggest x-ttcidfont-conf as that will go away once Xorg
> transitions to using /usr/share/fonts instead of defoma. Later down
> the track, Xorg upstream (Keith Packard specificially) planned to add
> fontconfig support.


Hmm, ok. So, after the current round of updates, we'll do another one
to drop the suggestion of x-ttcidfont-conf|fontconfig for packages
that are doing it.

I prefer doing this later on. The current transition is complicated
enough..:-)


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