Bug#327480: Please separate the .pfb files of Type1 fonts and make them available to X11

[Florent Rougon <f.rougon@free.fr>]

Hi,

Hilmar Preusse <hille42@web.de> wrote:

>> What does Gnome2 integration require? I would expect that Gnome2
>> uses fontconfig, which would be provided by defoma.

[...]

> Well, I don't use Gnome2. I can't say something about that. Florent,
> are you able to clarify here?

I agree with the above statement. This is confirmed by
/usr/share/doc/fontconfig/README.Debian:

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| The new font renderer in XFree86 is called freetype2, and applications
| using it access fonts on the client side. Most of them (including all
| GTK2/GNOME2 and KDE3 applications) do it using fontconfig, which
| provides listing and matching facilities for all fonts installed on the
| system. Any font installed in /usr/share/fonts or ~/.fonts will be 
| accessible to these applications. This is now also true for fonts added
| using defoma.
`----

>> The way I understand the policy one *has* to put a 'fonts.scale' file
>> named <pkg-name>.scale into /etc/X11/fonts/Type1/.
>> 
> Debian Policy Manual
> version 3.6.1.1, 2004-06-25

[...]

> Did that change in a newer version?

I don't think so. According to
/usr/share/doc/debian-policy/upgrading-checklist.txt.gz, the last time
Policy was amended wrt fonts was in May 2001.

-- 
Florent