Re: xfsft deb package
On Sun, 26 Apr 1998, Stephen Carpenter wrote:
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> A few days ago (maybe a week or so? I am too lazy to look back and
> check...and it doesn't REALLY matter)
> I mentioned an interest in xfstt which is listed as needing
> a new maintainer and got no reply here....but I was told
> in a separate discussion (which was the same one which
> prompted me to post here) I was told that it already has a new
> maintainer.
> Then I recived an anynomous message from someone who had read the thread.
> (I havn't gotten an anonymous message since annon.pennet.fi shut down)
> Saying that I should look into xfsft ..which is another (suposedly better)
> True Type font server for X.
> (BTW a number of days ago I expressed intrest in this on debian-mentors
> about this but recived no response...nor any other mail from that
> list which I am almost sure I subscribed to...is that adead list?)
> I have thought about it a bit more and I woul dlike to give this a try.
> has anyone else looked into this (or possibly already doing this?
> it is not listed as being worked on...)
> Unfortunatly this package is a little weird in one way...
> the distribution only contains some of the source code...
> the rest is from other packages (it si distributed as a patch)
> has anyone run into this situation before?
> This will require me to get the "Freetype" source code and
> the X11 source code (it uses the X11 font server source)
> how should this be handled (esp when it comes to making the
> source ditribution with the tar.gz and the diffs and all)
If it is a patch to xfs that uses the freetype libs, I'd think it could be
incorporated into the xfs that is in the xbase package, but I wouldn't
care if it was implemented as a separate font server. Could you contact
Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org> (the XFree86 maintainer) about this?
Remco
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