[Debian GNUstep maintainers] Re: GNUstep and defoma

[Hubert Chan]

OK, this is long overdue...

On Thu, 14 Apr 2005 08:53:28 +0200, Gürkan Sengün said:

> Angus was looking for debian packagers on #gnustep the other day...
>> "i can't remember why i didn't pass it over to you guys earlier
>> http://people.debian.org/~gus/gnustep.defoma ...

I've taken gus' script, made some little modifications and fixes, and
put it in the gnustep-back package.

Everyone, please test the package, and let me know if you have any
problems, or if you have any comments.  Just download and install the
gnustep-back0.10 deb from
<http://www.uhoreg.ca/programming/debian/gnustep/packages/gnustep-back>.
(And, of course, make sure that defoma is installed.)  After you install
it, all the fonts that are registered with defoma should be available to
GNUstep applications.

If there are no problems reported, I'll upload the package.

(gus, if you have time, could you check that I'm calling defoma properly
from the maintainer scripts?  I mainly just copied from gs-common.)

>> i create all the files in /var/lib/defoma/gnustep.d/ and then symlink
>> them from /usr/lib/GNUstep/System/Library/Fonts I feel a bit dirty
>> about writing auto-generated stuff to /usr/lib, so if GNUstep ever
>> comes up with a way to search /var/lib/defoma/gnustep.d directly then
>> it would be best to change things a little cool.

I've also modified the gnustep-back art backend to search in
/var/lib/defoma/gnustep-nfont.d for fonts, so that the script doesn't
need to create the symlinks.

>> let me know if it actually works ;)"

It works for me ;)

> PS: keep gus in the cc:

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