Re: Modular Packaging: Font Aliases
On Fri, Dec 02, 2005 at 12:22:50AM -0500, David Nusinow wrote:
> Either way, we have to decide what to do with the aliases shipped by
> upstream. Do we ship an xfonts-aliases package that includes all the
> aliases in font/alias? Alternately, we can copy the individual font.alias
> files installed by the upstream alias module to their individual packages.
> Upstream has grouped them by 100dpi, 75dpi, misc, and cyrillic, which
> matches our own previous and current package structure currently, so there
> shouldn't be a problem. I'd just drop them in the debian dir and install
> them. I'm leaning towards this latter solution, although I'm not sure this
> is the correct method. Comments?
I think this seems the most sensible solution to me. Not sure if the debian
dir is the right place, you could probably just provide a patch putting them
in the right place and such, but it would be more work.
Friendly,
Sven Luther
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