RE: font policy changes

[unifoundry@unifoundry.com]

> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Re: font policy changes
> From: Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org>
> Date: Wed, July 16, 2008 4:20 am
> To: unifoundry@unifoundry.com
> Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, debian-mentors@lists.debian.org
> 
> The font caches should be automatically updated as soon as you are
> registering fonts with defoma. If you are not using defoma, you need to
> run fc-cache by hand in the postinst.
> 
> Cheers,

Thank you.  I can write a proposed addition to the Policy Manual for
TrueType fonts after I'm done with the current package unless someone
else wants to do it.  The "update-fonts-dir" utility currently only
handles fonts in the X11 tree (not TrueType), and even then the new X11
font directory options to look under /usr/share/fonts/X11/ ("-7" and
"--x11r7-layout") don't work on my stable release (Etch 4.0r3).


Paul Hardy
unifoundry@unifoundry.com