Bug#91257: re-proposing this
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I am re-proposing this. The only change is the following two paragraphs:
<item>
Fonts of any type supported by the X Window System must be
be in a separate binary package from any executables,
libraries, or documentation (except that specific to the
fonts shipped, such as their license information). If one
or more of the fonts so packaged are necessary for proper
operation of the package with which they are associated the
font package may be Recommended; if the fonts merely
provide an enhancement, a Suggests relationship may be
used. Packages must not Depend on font packages.
<footnote>
This is because the X server may retrieve fonts
from the local filesystem or over the network from
an X font server; the Debian package system is
empowered to deal only with the local filesystem.
</footnote>
</item>
Here's the full diff with the above change:
--- policy.sgml Sun Mar 25 01:34:33 2001
+++ policy.sgml.fonts Sun May 6 00:43:22 2001
@@ -6010,66 +6010,80 @@
<p>
<em>Packages that provide fonts for the X Window System</em>
- must do a number of things to ensure that they are both
- available without modification of the X or font server
- configuration, and that they do not corrupt files used by
- other font packages to register information about themselves.
+ <footnote>
+ 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.
+ </footnote>
+ must do a number of things to ensure that they are both available
+ without modification of the X or font server configuration, and
+ that they do not corrupt files used by other font packages to
+ register information about themselves.
<enumlist>
<item>
- Fonts of any type supported by the X Window System
- should be be in a separate binary package from any
- executables, libraries, or documentation (except that
- specific to the fonts shipped); if a program or
- library is <em>unusable</em> without one or more
- specific fonts, the package containing the program or
- library should declare a dependency on the package(s)
- containing the font(s) it requires.
- </item>
- <item>
- BDF fonts should be converted to PCF fonts with the
- <tt>bdftopcf</tt> utility (available in the
- <tt>xutils</tt> package, <tt>gzip</tt>ped, and
- placed in a directory that corresponds to their
- resolution:
+ Fonts of any type supported by the X Window System must be
+ be in a separate binary package from any executables,
+ libraries, or documentation (except that specific to the
+ fonts shipped, such as their license information). If one
+ or more of the fonts so packaged are necessary for proper
+ operation of the package with which they are associated the
+ font package may be Recommended; if the fonts merely
+ provide an enhancement, a Suggests relationship may be
+ used. Packages must not Depend on font packages.
+ <footnote>
+ This is because the X server may retrieve fonts
+ from the local filesystem or over the network from
+ an X font server; the Debian package system is
+ empowered to deal only with the local filesystem.
+ </footnote>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ BDF fonts must be converted to PCF fonts with the
+ <tt>bdftopcf</tt> utility (available in the <tt>xutils</tt>
+ package, <tt>gzip</tt>ped, and placed in a directory that
+ corresponds to their resolution:
<list>
<item>
- 100 dpi fonts should be placed in
+ 100 dpi fonts must be placed in
<tt>/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/</tt>.
</item>
<item>
- 75 dpi fonts should be placed in
+ 75 dpi fonts must be placed in
<tt>/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/</tt>.
</item>
<item>
Character-cell fonts, cursor fonts, and other
- low-resolution fonts should be placed in
+ low-resolution fonts must be placed in
<tt>/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/</tt>.
</item>
</list>
</item>
<item>
- Speedo fonts should be placed in
+ Speedo fonts must be placed in
<tt>/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo/</tt>.
</item>
<item>
- Type 1 fonts should be placed in
- <tt>/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/</tt>. If font
- metric files are available, they may be placed here as
- well.
- </item>
- <item>
- Subdirectories of <tt>/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/</tt>
- other than those listed above should be neither created nor
- used. (The <tt>PEX</tt> and <tt>cyrillic</tt> directories are
- excepted for historical reasons, but installation of files into
- these directories remains discouraged.)
- </item>
- <item>
- Font packages may, instead of placing files directly in
- the X font directories listed above, provide symbolic links in
- the font directory which point to the files' actual location
- in the filesystem. Such a location should comply with the
- FHS.
+ Type 1 fonts must be placed in
+ <tt>/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/</tt>. If font metric
+ files are available, they must be placed here as well.
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ Subdirectories of <tt>/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/</tt> other
+ than those listed above must be neither created nor used.
+ (The <tt>PEX</tt>, <tt>CID</tt>, and <tt>cyrillic</tt>
+ directories are excepted for historical reasons, but
+ installation of files into these directories remains
+ discouraged.)
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ Font packages may, instead of placing files directly in the
+ X font directories listed above, provide symbolic links in
+ the font directory which point to the files' actual
+ location in the filesystem. Such a location must comply
+ with the FHS.
</item>
<item>
Font packages should not contain both 75dpi and 100dpi
@@ -6085,57 +6099,57 @@
"-misc" appended to its name.
</item>
<item>
- Font packages <em>must not</em> provide the files
+ Font packages must not provide the files
<tt>fonts.dir</tt>, <tt>fonts.alias</tt>, or
<tt>fonts.scale</tt> in a font directory.
<list>
<item>
- <tt>fonts.dir</tt> files must not be provided at
- all.
+ <tt>fonts.dir</tt> files must not be provided at all.
</item>
<item>
- <tt>fonts.alias</tt> and <tt>fonts.scale</tt>
- files, if needed, should be provided in the
- directory
+ <tt>fonts.alias</tt> and <tt>fonts.scale</tt> files,
+ if needed, should be provided in the directory
<tt>/etc/X11/fonts/<em>fontdir</em>/<em>package</em>.<em>extension</em></tt>,
where <em>fontdir</em> is the name of the
- subdirectory of
- <tt>/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/</tt> where the
- package's corresponding fonts are stored (e.g.,
- <tt>75dpi</tt> or <tt>misc</tt>),
+ subdirectory of <tt>/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/</tt>
+ where the package's corresponding fonts are stored
+ (e.g., <tt>75dpi</tt> or <tt>misc</tt>),
<em>package</em> is the name of the package that
provides these fonts, and <em>extension</em> is
- either <tt>scale</tt> or <tt>alias</tt>,
- whichever corresponds to the file
- contents.
+ either <tt>scale</tt> or <tt>alias</tt>, whichever
+ corresponds to the file contents.
</item>
</list>
</item>
<item>
- Font packages must declare a dependency on
- <tt>xutils</tt> and, in the package
- post-installation and post-removal scripts, invoke the
- <tt>mkfontdir</tt> command on each directory into
- which they installed fonts.
- </item>
- <item>
- Font packages that provide one or more
- <tt>fonts.scale</tt> files as described above must declare a
- versioned dependency on <tt>xutils (>=
- 4.0.2)</tt> and invoke <tt>update-fonts-scale</tt> on each
- directory into which they installed fonts
- <em>before</em> invoking <tt>mkfontdir</tt> on that
- directory. This invocation must occur in both the
- post-installation and post-removal scripts.
- </item>
- <item>
- Font packages that provide one or more
- <tt>fonts.alias</tt> files as described above must
- declare a versioned dependency on <tt>xutils
- (>= 4.0.2)</tt> and, in the package
- post-installation and post-removal scripts, invoke
- <tt>update-fonts-alias</tt> on each directory into
- which they installed fonts.
+ Font packages must declare a dependency on <tt>xutils
+ (>> 4.0.3)</tt> in their control data.
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ Font packages that provide one or more <tt>fonts.scale</tt>
+ files as described above must invoke
+ <tt>update-fonts-scale</tt> on each directory into which
+ they installed fonts <em>before</em> invoking
+ <tt>update-fonts-dir</tt> on that directory. This
+ invocation must occur in both the <tt>postinst</tt> (for
+ all arguments) and <tt>postrm</tt> (for all arguments
+ except <tt>upgrade</tt>) scripts.
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ Font packages that provide one or more <tt>fonts.alias</tt>
+ files as described above must invoke
+ <tt>update-fonts-alias</tt> on each directory into which
+ they installed fonts. This invocation must occur in both
+ the <tt>postinst</tt> (for all arguments) and
+ <tt>postrm</tt> (for all arguments except <tt>upgrade</tt>)
+ scripts.
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ Font packages must invoke <tt>update-fonts-dir</tt> on each
+ directory into which they installed fonts. This invocation
+ must occur in both the <tt>postinst</tt> (for all
+ arguments) and <tt>postrm</tt> (for all arguments except
+ <tt>upgrade</tt>) scripts.
</item>
<item>
Font packages must not provide alias names for the
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