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Re: [g-i] Uploaded ttf-arabeyes with a udeb for the ae_Tholoth.ttf font for graphical D-I needs



Sven Luther wrote:
On Mon, Nov 28, 2005 at 09:38:32AM +0100, Frans Pop wrote:

On Sunday 27 November 2005 19:40, Christian Perrier wrote:

I have just uploaded in the archive a new version (1.1-2) of the
ttf-arabeyes package, initially maintained by Mohammed Elzubeir.

As I've said before [1], I really think this is very nice, but possibly premature.


Why hold back on it ? It cannot hurt anyone, and would get ride of the tarball
hack. You can sort out the needed fonts later on, and it is not as if this
involves a huge amount of time lost elsewhere.

maybe this first experience in packaging fonts will help us to discover problems in udeb building earlier than if we had to wait for needed fonts to be selected. I think the tarball hack could be useful for some times still and not only for fonts picking but also to experiment with new GTKDFB 2.8.3 libs which are a continuous work-in-progress.
Creating test tarballs is usually easier than creating test-udebs..


ciao

attilio



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