[Pkg-fonts-devel] fontforge packaging update and queries

[Adam Borowski]

On Sun, May 29, 2016 at 07:10:43PM +0200, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
> Quoting Vasudev Kamath (2016-05-29 18:03:20)
> > Coming to actual part. I noticed there is a fontforge-nox package 
> > which is built bit weirdly . It does entire fontforge build process 
> > from override_dh_strip target, by disabling X support and python 
> > extension.

I'd recommend building in two separate directories instead.

> > Package description says its without X and used only for scripting. 
> > But I wonder if any one is using this package. In most of my font 
> > packages I directly use fontforge to build fonts from source. Does any 
> > one else has use case for fontforge-nox?.

For building font packages, please use fontforge-nox instead of fontforge.
It's way lighter for buildds.  The proper way to do so is:

Build-Depends: fontforge-nox | fontforge

> > Just to briefly say it all do we need fontforge-nox, we can simply use 
> > fontforge from scripts. If we don't need it we should stop building 
> > this package.
> 
> This check shows quite a few hits:
> 
>   apt-rdepends fontforge-nox

That shows just a single hit.  I guess you meant build-rdeps, which shows
32.

> Yes, we need it.

Strictly speaking, it's "want" not "need".  The full-blown version can do
everything -nox can, if the maintenance burden is too high dropping -nox
is an possibility: human time is expensive, computer (buildd) time is cheap.
But the current way is better.


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