[Pkg-fonts-devel] Status of package modernization and defoma drop work

[Hideki Yamane]

Hi pkg-fonts-devel,

On Mon, 7 Dec 2009 07:17:47 +0100
Christian Perrier <bubulle at debian.org> wrote:
> Please find the current status as of today after an hard work
> week-end:

 I've accepted some Chinese font that is maintained by Arne, it had still
 contained defoma hints file (ttf-arphic-ukai, etc), now it was removed.
 
 However, it seems that many packages are still depend (or suggests, recommends) 
 on defoma package.

> $ LANG=C apt-rdepends -r --show=Depends,Suggests,Recommends -f=Depends,Suggests,Recommends defoma    
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree       
> Reading state information... Done
> defoma
>   Reverse Depends: cm-super-x11 (>= 0.3.4-3)
>   Reverse Depends: gnustep-back-common (>= 0.16.0-3)
>   Reverse Depends: gsfonts-other (6.0-3.2)
>   Reverse Depends: libpango1.0-common (>= 1.28.1-1)
>   Reverse Depends: libwmf0.2-7 (>= 0.2.8.4-6.1)
>   Reverse Depends: lmodern (>= 2.004.1-3)
>   Reverse Depends: psfontmgr (>= 0.11.11)
>   Reverse Depends: sun-java6-fonts (6.20-dlj-4)
>   Reverse Depends: t1-cyrillic (>= 4.13)
>   Reverse Depends: t1-oldslavic (>= 4.13)
>   Reverse Depends: t1-teams (>= 4.13)
>   Reverse Depends: t1-xfree86-nonfree (4.2.1-3)
>   Reverse Depends: tex-gyre (>= 2.004.1-2)
>   Reverse Depends: ttf-aenigma (0.0.20080510.dfsg-1)
>   Reverse Depends: ttf-alee (12)
>   Reverse Depends: ttf-arphic-ukai (0.2.20080216.1-1)
>   Reverse Depends: ttf-arphic-uming (0.2.20080216.1-3)
>   Reverse Depends: ttf-atarismall (2.1-3.1)
>   Reverse Depends: ttf-baekmuk (2.2-2)
>   Reverse Depends: ttf-bengali-fonts (1:0.5.6)
>   Reverse Depends: ttf-bpg-georgian-fonts (0.5)
>   Reverse Depends: ttf-breip (1.0-4)
>   Reverse Depends: ttf-devanagari-fonts (1:0.5.6)
>   Reverse Depends: ttf-essays1743 (1.0-4)
>   Reverse Depends: ttf-f500 (1.0-1)
>   Reverse Depends: ttf-georgewilliams (1.0-4)
>   Reverse Depends: ttf-goudybookletter (0.1-2.1)
>   Reverse Depends: ttf-gujarati-fonts (1:0.5.6)
>   Reverse Depends: ttf-isabella (1.01-7)
>   Reverse Depends: ttf-junicode (0.6.17-1)
>   Reverse Depends: ttf-kanjistrokeorders (2.014-1)
>   Reverse Depends: ttf-kannada-fonts (1:0.5.6)
>   Reverse Depends: ttf-kochi-gothic-naga10 (20030809-6)
>   Reverse Depends: ttf-larabie-deco (1:20011216-1.1)
>   Reverse Depends: ttf-larabie-straight (1:20011216-1.1)
>   Reverse Depends: ttf-larabie-uncommon (1:20011216-1.1)
>   Reverse Depends: ttf-lyx (1.6.6-2)
>   Reverse Depends: ttf-malayalam-fonts (1:0.5.6)
>   Reverse Depends: ttf-manchufont (2.007.svn0068-1)
>   Reverse Depends: ttf-mscorefonts-installer (3.2)
>   Reverse Depends: ttf-okolaks (0.5-2.3)
>   Reverse Depends: ttf-oriya-fonts (1:0.5.6)
>   Reverse Depends: ttf-punjabi-fonts (1:0.5.6)
>   Reverse Depends: ttf-radisnoir (0.9b-1.1)
>   Reverse Depends: ttf-sil-nuosusil (2.1.1-2)
>   Reverse Depends: ttf-sil-yi (1.200-1)
>   Reverse Depends: ttf-sinhala-lklug (0.5.3-1)
>   Reverse Depends: ttf-sjfonts (2.0.2-1)
>   Reverse Depends: ttf-staypuft (0.04-3)
>   Reverse Depends: ttf-summersby (1.007-3)
>   Reverse Depends: ttf-tagbanwa (1.003)
>   Reverse Depends: ttf-tamil-fonts (1:0.5.6)
>   Reverse Depends: ttf-telugu-fonts (1:0.5.6)
>   Reverse Depends: ttf-tiresias (0.1-1.1)
>   Reverse Depends: ttf-tmuni (1.901b-1)
>   Reverse Depends: ttf-umeplus-cl (20090209-1)
>   Reverse Depends: ttf-unifont (1:5.1.20080914-1)
>   Reverse Depends: ttf-uralic (0.0.20040829-1)
>   Reverse Depends: ttf-xfree86-nonfree (4.2.1-3)
>   Reverse Depends: ttf-xfree86-nonfree-syriac (4.2.1-3)
>   Reverse Depends: vflib3 (3.6.14.dfsg-1.1+b1)
>   Reverse Depends: x-ttcidfont-conf (>= 32)
>   Reverse Depends: xfonts-baekmuk (2.2-3)
>   Reverse Depends: xfonts-tipa (>= 2:1.3-14)
>   Reverse Suggests: fontconfig (>= 2.8.0-2.1)

 # some packages are maintained by me ;) those are fixed in svn, so I'll release it...


 And, some people sometimes claimed against dropping defoma work, see 
 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=583956 or so.

 Now here is a question.

 1. first of all, should we continue this "defoma drop" work?
 2. if its answer is yes, what is its schedule or plan?
 3. then, we should post to devel-announce about this work (its benefit, 
    how to do that, schedule, deadline, etc) to get consensus.

 Any comments are welcome :)
 Thanks.


-- 
Regards,

 Hideki Yamane     henrich @ debian.or.jp/org
 http://wiki.debian.org/HidekiYamane