On Tue, May 04, 2004 at 09:18:32PM +0200, Fabio Massimo Di Nitto wrote: > > Two files, bdftruncate and ucs2any (perl scripts, part of xutils), and > > their manpages are installed only when fonts are built and they could be > > copied directly from $(BUILD_TREE) (unchecked). > > I did investigate this last issue too. The two perl script could be easily > copied to the install dir, but the manpages can't. The latter need to be > processed and that's still a problem. > > I suggest to move these two arch indep files/man pages in another package > other than xutils. I can't hounestly come up with the perfect solution > here. The files need to endup in an arch: all package and the actual pkg > list doesn't have some sort of xfonts-utils or xutils-common. > I would suggest either to use xfree86-common (even if i know that it is > NOT perfect) or to create a new package that contains all these small > scripts like for eg: xutils-common (any name is fine.. get the idea). > > Any other good suggestion? I think the Imakefiles should be fixed so that bdftruncate and ucs2any are decoupled from the building of the fonts themselves. I can look into this. If this is an issue for the TODO, Fabio, please add it. I regard it as your call. -- G. Branden Robinson | I must confess to being surprised Debian GNU/Linux | by the magnitude of incompatibility branden@debian.org | with such a minor version bump. http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | -- Manoj Srivastava
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