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Re: Uploaded type1inst 0.6-1 (source all) to master



Jim Pick writes:
 > I wasn't aware that dtm even existed!  I must have skipped the
 > discussion/announcement.

AFAIR, there was little discussion, as nearly noone seemed to be
interested in that font handling :(

 > I'm relatively unaware of stuff in experimental, because there is no
 > Packages file.  Why do we have so much stuff in there?  Stuff in
 > experimental isn't really part of our release anyways.

Ah, there is a Packages file.  Only problem, it is multi-architecture
:(

However, you can now use project/experimental as a valid dist in
dpkg-ftp, since 1.4.9.1... (I added that ;)

 > FWIW, type1inst is a useful utility for system administrators to
 > manually install fonts, whereas dtm seems to be a fuller, more
 > automated solution oriented towards package maintainers.  So I don't
 > think there is too much overlap, really.

Maybe, but I expect dtm to make type1inst obsolete when it is
finished.

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