pango1.0: please drop defoma backend for generating pangox.aliases

[Paul Wise]

Hi Debian pango folks,

Due to a bug in debbugs, the following bug report was sent to the
unknown-package alias instead of to you, so I'm forwarding it to you:

http://bugs.debian.org/540984

On Tue, 2009-08-11 at 12:59 +0800, Paul Wise wrote:
> Source: pango1.0
> Severity: wishlist
> Usertags: defoma-removal
> 
> According to posts on various lists, pangox is deprecated and will soon
> be removed from pango and pangox.aliases is ignored:
> 
> http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gtk-i18n-list/2009-August/msg00016.html
> http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gtk-i18n-list/2009-August/msg00017.html
> http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gtk-i18n-list/2004-December/msg00038.html
> http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gtk-i18n-list/2004-December/msg00039.html
> http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gtk-list/2004-December/msg00177.html
> http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gtk-list/2004-December/msg00180.html
> http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gtk-list/2004-December/msg00181.html
> http://bugs.gentoo.org/74787
> 
> Please remove the defoma backend for generating pangox.aliases, drop the
> dependency on defoma and remove the pangox.aliases file if it has been
> generated by defoma. Generated pangox.aliases files contain the
> following string as the first line:
> 
> ## THIS FILE IS GENERATED BY DEFOMA, DO NOT EDIT

-- 
bye,
pabs

http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise
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