Re: Can we drop t1lib dependency?
佐々木さん
On Fr, 23 Mär 2012, Youhei SASAKI wrote:
> I prepare to upload pxdvi, xdvik with Japanese Kanji support for TeXLive
> 2011. In Debian, current package name is xdvik-ja.
Good idea ... I guess we should then set also the
pxdviUse yes
so that the proper font map for pxdvi is generated? But I leave that
to you to decide on that.
> However, current "xdvik-ja" has a Bug Report about t1lib dependency.
> Unfortunately, t1lib, enhanced rasterizer for Type 1 fonts, will be
> dropped. ( or is this issue under discussion?)
I have no idea ...
> New TexLive package, texlive-binaries also depends libt1-5 because xdvik
> is depends libt1.so.5.
Yes, and if t1lib is removed, we will build xdvi against t1lib as included
in TeX Live source.
> Can we drop t1lib dependency?
I don't see, unless someone changes xdvi to use libfreetype2, which
is not going to happen soon, but OTOH, I couldn't even find a bug
entry of feature request to convert from t1lib to freetype in
the xdvi database.
So, currently I have the feeling we cannot drop t1lib support.
Best wishes
Norbert
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