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Intent to ship xfonts-wqy pcf fonts uncompressed



There's been a long standing performance issue of using xfonts-wqy due
to compression. As Fang Qianqian <fangq@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu> pointed
out, the Debian Policy[1] requires pcf to be gzipped. However, due to
the huge set of Chinese characters, the compression brings serious
performance issue as pointed out in bug #384149[2]. There is intention
to ship such fonts ungzipped, which should alleviate the situatio. Due
to the complication with Debian Policy, we think it'd better to have a
discussion in debian-devel and debian-policy mailing lists for a
suggestion.

[1]
http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-customized-programs.html#s11.8.5
[2] http://bugs.debian.org/384149




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