Re: State of xfstt
On Fri, 25 Jan 2002, Jules Bean wrote:
> Warning, Andreas. Cc:ing Branden on list mail is taking years off
> your life expectancy ;-)
I'm aware of that. But I intentionally did it because the situation
is quite differtent. Branden is usually angry (as well as I am) when
he is in a Reply list to one of his own postings to the list because
he is reading the thread. But Brandon has not shown interest in this
thread and I just wanted to make sure he would notice it. I really
hope that he forgives this and for sure I'll not CC: him personally in
case on any further posting inside this thread.
> > Conflicts: xfstt
> > Replaces: xfstt
> > Provides: xfstt
> >
> > for the XFree-4.x packages would help here?
> >
> > Just want to verify this before filing a wishlist bug against xfree 4.x .
>
> Wouldn't really be right, would it?
>
> Because X4 isn't a font server. (I don't think). So if a machine has
> xfstt installed because it is serving truetype fonts to a whole
> network of machines, it doesn't want to lose it just because it
> upgrades to X4 for its local display.
I can see the point. As I said I do not know the internals.
But currently the situation seems to be that X4 and xfstt conflict
with each other (in case you load xtt module of X4). I just noticed
this myself recently and just avoided loading this module and
I guess this is just checked by the debhelper script because it
was unchecked by default.
Anyway I think to resolve the issue with xfstt both maintainer should
find a clever common solution.
Kind regards
Andreas.
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