On Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 06:00:15PM +0200, Juliusz Chroboczek wrote: > Great work, Branden. Thanks a lot. > > BR> + mkfontdir will howl about 3 fonts in xfonts-75dpi. This is > BR> an upstream bug and has already been reported. I don't want > BR> to hear about it. > > Haven't heard about it. Which fonts are these? I sent mail to the xpert list yesterday about them; I don't have the list handy right now. > BR> + [xbase-clients?] new utilities: dpsexec, dpsinfo, [...] texteroids, > > I'm wondering about the wisdom of making xbase-clients dependent on > the DPS libraries. Yeah, some people complain about this. I remain unconvinced. Gratuitous package proliferation is bad. > BR> + [xspecs] most of these files have been renamed because > BR> upstream rejected my patch to give them IMO more sensible > BR> names > > Does that mean that the X books have different names upstream and in > Debian? If so, I think it's a very bad idea as it will make telling > people to RTFM horribly awkward. Well, this isn't the case anymore. They used to be named differently; now they aren't. > BR> - new library; libXmuu, a version of Xmu that does not depend on Xt > BR> (shared version) > > That's not quite accurate. It's a library that contains only those > symbols from Xmu that have been found to be used by many non-Xt > clients. It is by no means a replacement for Xmu. Okay, thanks for the clarification. -- G. Branden Robinson | The errors of great men are venerable Debian GNU/Linux | because they are more fruitful than the branden@debian.org | truths of little men. http://www.debian.org/~branden/ | -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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