Bug#926702: dvb-apps: alevt: Font size too small

[Frank Heckenbach]

Package: dvb-apps
Version: 1.1.1+rev1500-1.1
Severity: normal
File: /usr/bin/alevt
Tags: patch upstream

The font size of alevt is very small on modern display sizes and
resolutions.

The same problem was reported on another distribution over 10 years
ago (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=459294), but
apparently the patch never made it back upstream or to Debian. I've
rebased the patch provided there
(https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/alevt/blob/master/f/alevt-1.6.2-doublefont.patch)
against the current version and it still works (tested).

Interestingly, alevt.patch added this as a to-do item in 2010 (long
time ago, but *after* the patch above was already made) ...

--- linuxtv-dvb-apps-1.1.1+rev1457.orig/util/alevt/TODO	2011-12-08 01:26:50.000000000 +1100
+++ linuxtv-dvb-apps-1.1.1+rev1457/util/alevt/TODO	2012-01-05 22:23:33.000000000 +1100
-Hi, these are issues that I unfortunately cannot resolve myself:
+These are issues that I unfortunately cannot resolve myself:
[...]
+3. New BDF fonts for slightly bigger windows.
+    Those BDF fonts need to be edited so that they can be transformed by bdf2xbm.
-Uwe Bugla, February 11th, 2010.
+Uwe Bugla, February 14th, 2010.
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