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Re: DP Manual question: why is 11.8.5 so dated?



Dear Flaming Prick,

On Wed, Jul 06, 2005 at 05:55:46AM -0700, John Hendrickson wrote:
> 11.8.5 Packages providing fonts

> States /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/ must be used.

> KDE, GNOME, and others install some fonts in /usr/share/fonts and others
> in other places as well.

11.8.5. Packages providing fonts
--------------------------------

     Packages that provide fonts for the X Window System
                                 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
[...]

[1]  For the purposes of Debian Policy, a "font for the X Window System" is
     one which is accessed via X protocol requests.  Fonts for the Linux
     console, for PostScript renderers, or any other purpose, do not fit
     this definition.  Any tool which makes such fonts available to the X
     Window System, however, must abide by this font policy.

Fonts in /usr/share/fonts are TrueType fonts, not fonts which are being
accessed via X protocol requests.

> 2) I am seeing documented *intentional* package compatibility issues in
> build and in dpkg install areas.  This means older packages may stop
> functioning in the new release.  I see nothign about the "new debian
> rules" of merit that admonishes deleting other peoples (old) packages:
> infact - I'd say the opposite.  It appears no package is safe in Debian:
> they are all targeted to be burned like some Nazi bonfire.  And I'd say
> DM's doing this are twits.

Next time try spending less effort on the blowhard rhetoric, and more effort
reading to the bottom of the Policy section in question, mmmkay?

-- 
Steve Langasek
postmodern programmer

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