On Sat, Apr 29, 2006 at 03:25:54PM +0200, Robert Luberda wrote:
> | 11.8.5 Packages providing fonts
> | 9. fonts.alias and fonts.scale files, if needed, should be provided in the
> | directory /etc/X11/fonts/fontdir/package.extension, where fontdir is the
> The directory seems to be changed. Current X11 packages (e.g. xfonts-base) install
> their fonts into /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7/fontdir/package.extension
This is most likely not staying; I've discussed with the XSF reverting this
directory change, because it appears to be a gratuitous incompatibility.
> | 10. Font packages must declare a dependency on xutils (>> 4.0.3) in
> xfonts-utils is the new package name.
Correct.
> | 11. Font packages that provide one or more fonts.scale files as
> | described above must invoke update-fonts-scale on each directory into
> | 12. Font packages that provide one or more fonts.alias files as
> | described above must invoke update-fonts-alias on each directory into
> | 13. Font packages must invoke update-fonts-dir on each directory into
> The update-fonts-{scale,alias,dir} commands may need to be called with
> the --x11r7-layout flag to let the command know the new font directory
> structure is used.
This part also hasn't definitely shaken out yet I think, so it's probably
premature to try to fix up policy to match.
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