old cruft in PS fonts directories (was: SVN tetex-base commit: r1297 - tetex-base/branches/new-splitting/debian)

[Frank Küster <frank@debian.org>]

Ralf Stubner <ralf.stubner@web.de> wrote:

> Hmm, 'ls -lt /usr/share/texmf-tetex/fonts/{vf,tfm}/adobe/palatino/' does
> give some really old files indeed. Looking at, say, pplr.vf I see as
> first line
[...]
> I don't know if these fonts have any real use in teTeX.

I think we should generally try to sort this out.  I'd like to start
with TeXLive's tpm files for the base fonts and check for every file in
there

- whether it is available anywhere on CTAN (unpacked or in an archive)

- whether we have a license, and it's free.

After that, we need a general decision which fonts should be included in
TeX distributions, and which not.  The recent thread in texlive-devel
(mislabelled "texlive infrastructure") already lead to the decision to
remove IBM/Adobe Courier font files.

Regards, Frank
-- 
Frank Küster
Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer (teTeX)