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Re: X11R7 and what this transition means for you



Daniel Stone wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 16, 2006 at 06:44:20PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote:
> > 6) Finally, in addition to everything else that's moving out of /usr/X11R6/,
> > packages providing fonts for X should now install to /usr/share/fonts/X11
> > instead of to /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts.  The heirarchy is the same as
> > before, as are the commands to manage fonts; to ensure your font package's
> > compatibility with the installed Xorg system, you should only need to bump
> > your dependency on xutils to xutils (>> 1:7.0.0).  The plan is that
> > xorg.conf will support both the old and new paths by default for this
> > transition.
> 
> If you're using debhelper's dh_installxfonts to install fonts for you,
> rather than doing it by hand, you need to explicitly Build-Depends on
> debhelper (>= 5.0.29), in addition to fixing any references to
> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts, or /usr/lib/X11/fonts, in your package.

Also, if your package uses alias files in /etc/X11/fonts/, it needs to
move to /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7/, and will need debhelper 5.0.31. 5.0.31
also passes --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-* commands, which seems to be
needed to get it to look in the new fonts locations.

-- 
see shy jo

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