Re: [Pkg-fonts-devel] RFC: t1-urw-garamondno8 fonts for TeX and X
2009/8/20 Danai SAE-HAN (韓達耐) <danai.sae-han@edpnet.be>:
> - I think Debian is indeed phasing out support for defoma. At
> least, there has been a request from Paul Wise to remove the
> dependency on defoma for several packages (see [1]).
The plan for that is here:
http://wiki.debian.org/OldPkgRemovals#defoma
The rationale is that it is unmaintained and Debian-specific, and
there is a cross-distro, maintained alternative that is already in
Debian: fontconfig.
> [1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?submitter=pabs%40debian.org,
> #540763 and up.
This would have been a better link:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?users=pabs@debian.org;tag=defoma-removal
--
bye,
pabs
http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise
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