On Tue, 2008-12-09 at 08:50 +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le mardi 09 décembre 2008 à 07:35 +0900, Adam C Powell IV a écrit : > > > If some CJK fonts are missing on your system, you should simply install > > > the corresponding ttf-* font packages. > > > > Thanks, that did it. > > > > This seems like a very significant change this long after the freeze, > > which could make a lot of users unhappy. A few issues: > > * Is it prominent in the release notes? > > I thought etch was not affected by this issue since I uploaded > specifically a fix targeted for it (2.3.2-7), but I just checked in a > clean etch chroot, and it looks it was broken in the meantime before the > release. So maybe this should be in the release notes, indeed. Thanks. Can I assume you'll take care of this, or could you use a hand? > > * Will the release managers accept changes to packages, e.g. *-ja > > packages adding "Suggests: ttf-japanese-gothic" or -mincho? > > * Where are the old bitmap fonts so I can get rid of them? > > They're nowhere in my debfoster list, so packages must still > > depend on them. Can we get rid of dependencies on old bitmap > > fonts before the Lenny release as well, so it's obvious to users > > that they're no longer needed? > > That would be the xfonts-* packages. You only need xfonts-base so that > the X server can find “fixed”. Thought so. But I couldn't find any installed xfonts-* packages suggesting CJK, so I don't know where those bitmap fonts came from. I'll test the effects of removing selected xfonts-* packages, something's bound to break somewhere... Thanks, -Adam -- GPG fingerprint: D54D 1AEE B11C CE9B A02B C5DD 526F 01E8 564E E4B6 Engineering consulting with open source tools http://www.opennovation.com/
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