On Sun, Jul 22, 2007 at 17:01:23 +0200, Josip Rodin wrote:
> I have been using the following setting in ~/.Xresources for years now:
>
> XTerm*font: -misc-fixed-*-*-*-*-20-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-2
>
> That font used to be in xfonts-base-transcoded, but that package is now
> missing. removals.txt lists it, but both its listings are "NVIU", which is
> clearly not true in this case. http://wiki.debian.org/NewInEtch says "Etch
> is the first fully UTF-8 Debian release, so there's no version of
> xfonts-base with legacy encodings anymore" - but is not an explanation,
> because the existence of UTF-8 stuff simply does not preclude the
> existence of ISO 8859-2 stuff.
>
Looking at the relevant fonts.dir file, I see:
10x20-ISO8859-2.pcf.gz -misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--20-200-75-75-c-100-iso8859-2
and then:
$ dpkg -S 10x20-ISO8859-2.pcf.gz
xfonts-base: /usr/share/fonts/X11/misc/10x20-ISO8859-2.pcf.gz
> I found bug #363991, where it is claimed that the transcoded fonts are
> included in the original font package, but that is apparently not true,
> and the version of xfonts-base is the same in etch and in sid (1:1.0.0-4).
> Indeed, its description says:
>
> | This package contains primarily fonts in the ISO 10646-1 and ISO 8859-1
> | encodings, to conserve disk space. (A small selection of fonts in ISO
> | 8859-8, JIS-X0208.1983, JIS-X0208.1976, and GB2312.1980 fonts are also
> | included.) For other encodings, see the xfonts-base-transcoded package.
>
That description is probably inaccurate.
> Can we please have this sarge->etch regression fixed? This fix alone
> would be harmless enough to be included in a point release, even.
>
> BTW, the copyright file in xfonts-75dpi-transcoded does not mention
> the location of the upstream sources, which is a violation of
> http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-docs.html#s-copyrightfile
> ("the copyright file must say where the upstream sources (if any) were
> obtained"). That also makes it harder to check if these files can be found
> somewhere upstream (and repackaged).
>
The xfonts-* packages include a bunch of different fonts from
http://xorg.freedesktop.org/releases/individual/font/
I'll fix the copyright file, thanks for noticing.
Cheers,
Julien
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