Re: pfb2t1c and cm-super
On 14.09.05 Ralf Stubner (ralf.stubner@physik.uni-erlangen.de) wrote:
> Norbert Preining wrote:
Hi,
> > The problem I saw, but please correct me, is that with this
> > version where the actual pfb fonts are created at install time
> > from this special file, is that the created fonts are *not* under
> > debians dpkg control. So other packages can overwrite, delete,
> > remove whatever do with them. Also, we could probably overwrite
> > files installed by other packages (if they install the files with
> > same names in the same directory).
>
> The second issue shouldn't be a problem, as one could check in
> postinst that no files are overwritten. But of course, having the
> files under dpkg control is desireable.
>
Well, one idea could be to place a collection of empty files into the
dpkg to get control over the files. They're replaced by the real
files in postinst. Problem is here that the md5sum of the files is
calculated incorrectly during pkg-build.
We could simply omit the calc of checksums. Another dirty hack could
be to install these files, let dh_md5sum do his job, then replace the
files by empty one and build the package (I assume here the file
generated by t1ctopfb are identical).
I guess it is a better idea to contact dpkg <at> packages.d.o about
that...
> Another possibility, which goes way beyond Debian packaging but
> sounds interesting anyway, would be to add a mktexpfb (or extend
> mktexpk) such that pfb files can be created from the compressed t1c
> files at run time, just as mf/tfm/pk/... files are created now.
>
Sounds good, however it doesn't solve the problem above.
H.
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