(please keep joss@d.o CC'ed to answers unless he objects to this) Most of our fonts are still using defoma, which is unmaintained and scheduled/wanted for removal (I saw Paul Wise's comments about this in one of defoma's bugs I was looking at two days ago when I prepared a defoma upload to fix the annoying hardcoded paths for defoma-app and defoma-font that give lintian warnings on all our packages). During a short discussion yesterday with Josselin Mouette (lead of GNOME packages maintenance team), he mentioned me that we really should no longer use defoma and install defoma hints files: "just drop the TTF files in the right place and the remaining will be handled by fontconfig".....OK, that was said in French ans was a little bit more direct but you get the picture!). I tend to give Joss full credit on this and I'm considering starting the removal of debian/<font>.defoma-hints files, calls to dh_installdefoma in debian/rules and dependency on defoma in debian/control. The only thing Joss mentioned me is to take care of what's left after the upgrade. However, our packages that use dh_installdefoma have things like this in their prerm scripts: # Automatically added by dh_installdefoma FILE='/etc/defoma/hints/ttf-lao.hints' if [ "$1" = remove ]; then test -x /usr/bin/defoma-font && /usr/bin/defoma-font purge-all $FILE fi # End automatically added section So, I think that removing defoma stuff is just enough. Would there be any objections to this? --
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