Re: Bug#482554: latex-cjk-common: freetype1 deprecation
Osamu Aoki schreef:
> Package: latex-cjk-common
> Version: 4.7.0+git20080122-1
> Severity: important
> Tags: patch
>
> Hi, I heard
>
> | for Lenny we'd like to stop supporting two freetype packages in the |
> archive. In this case your package build-depends on freetype1-tools. | |
> freetype1 has been in oldlibs for Etch, it has very few reverse deps |
> left and we'll try to phase it out now. | | Please adapt your package, so
> that it links against the regular freetype | package.
>
> This was filed on several DDP documents. As I checked the root cause, it
> was traced to the recommendation of this package.
>
> Please apply patch and update your package.
The patch won't help; CJK *really* needs these .sfd files. That is a
"conditio sine qua non" to get extra fonts working with CJK.
As long as the .sfd files are not available in another package
(texlive-* or whatever), and the ttf2* are not linked to FT2 (which will
probably never happen), I'm inclined to still recommend FT1 for
latex-cjk-common, and build-depend on it for latex-cjk-chinese-arphic.
The reason it is only recommended for latex-cjk-common is that you will
only need it if you want to build these fonts yourself. But perhaps a
"Depends" is a better solution, because most people need it anyway.
In fact, FT1 shouldn't be in oldlibs at all, IMHO. FT2 doesn't have
some of the features of FT1 and isn't a replacement for these tools. It
only looks like FT2 is an upgrade to FT1, but it isn't in some important
aspects.
You might try to convince Werner Lemberg and his colleagues to implement the
ttf2* tools for FT2.
So if you don't mind, I will downgrade the severity of this bug to
"wishlist", and remove the "patch" tag.
P.S.: as for DDP, I'm currently testing xCJK, which will be included in
a next upload of latex-cjk-*, which has XeLaTeX support. It supports
TTF directly, so you won't have any of these font problems anymore. I'm
trying out several DFSG-free fonts now, to see which ones are good
enough to recommend.
Best regards
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