Re: [Pkg-fonts-devel] fontforge packaging update and queries
Adam Borowski <kilobyte@angband.pl> writes:
> 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.
OK I will see how I can do that.
>
>> > 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
Alright, noted. I think we should include this in our team policy to
build fonts from source. I know not a proper document exist as policy
but we can create one.
>
>> > 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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