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Re: font policy - maintainerless program



On Sat, Jul 19, 2008 at 5:16 PM, Adam D. Barratt
<adam@adam-barratt.org.uk> wrote:
> On Sat, 2008-07-19 at 16:58 -0700, Paul Hardy wrote:
>> I have been getting ready to release a font plus sources and auxiliary
>> programs for Debian.  The Policy Manual requires using the
>> update-fonts-dir script when installing a font.
>>
>> I was going to post a change to the update-fonts-dir script
> [...]
>> Unfortunately, the BTS says that the package has no current
>> maintainer, and asks that bugs not be filed against it.
>
> http://packages.debian.org/search?searchon=contents&keywords=update-fonts-dir says update-fonts-dir is in the xfonts-utils package, and http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?pkg=xfonts-utils certainly isn't complaining about a lack of maintainer.
>
> Ah, I see the confusion - you're looking at the BTS page for
> "update-fonts-dir". That will indeed tell you there's no maintainer
> listed and not to file bugs against it, but it also includes "[t]here is
> no record of the update-fonts-dir package".
>
> Regards,
>
> Adam
>
Thanks.  I was traveling today (and was away from home all last week)
and didn't have access to my Debian system.  I didn't know you could
look up a package name that contained a program like that online.  I
was trying to finish this this weekend (probably won't happen now) so
I sent out my email.

Still, there isn't any point in running update-fonts-dir the way it
stands now on any TrueType font (and therefore have a package with a
TrueType font comply with the Policy Manual) because the script never
looks under "/usr/share/fonts/truetype".  If update-fonts-dir is to
remain in the Policy Manual, then either it needs to be updated for
TrueType fonts or the Policy Manual needs to change saying that
update-fonts-dir doesn't apply to TrueType fonts, only to fonts under
"/usr/share/fonts/X11".  Which would make more sense?


Paul Hardy


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