Hallo Roland,
Am 26.08.2022 09:52, schrieb Roland Rosenfeld:
To say the truth, I still not fully understand how fonts work nowadays
(my knowledge is stuck in 1999), so I'm not sure whether the
fonts.scale/fonts.alias stuff in gsfonts-x11 is nowadays okay or an
ugly workaround.
For me it's the other way round: I have no clue of X11 fonts handling
and feel more at home in the fontconfig world. ;)
Anyway, you're free to take over all content of gsfonts-x11 into
src:fonts-urw-base35 (not that much content, only fonts.scale,
fonts.alias and a little voodoo in debian/rules to generate symlinks
(X11 doesn't seem to like .t1 suffix, so I symlinked to .pfb) and to
make fonts available as iso8859-2 and iso8859-15 in addition to
iso8859-1 (also an ugly hack but nobody complained, so it seems to
work). Not to forget some small autopkgtests, checking that all fonts
in fonts.scale/fonts.alias really exist and do not point into nirvana.
To be honest, I'd like to get rid of the hacks and voodoo and rather
have the files static in the source package exactly as they are meant to
be installed into the file system. They aren't giong to change in
significant ways in the near future anyway.
I just pushed a fonts-urw-base35 branch (including my yesterdays
patch) of gsfonts-x11 to salsa, to make it easier for you to get
everything you need: git push --set-upstream origin fonts-urw-base35
Thank you so much!
I'll take the two files as installed into the package into
src:fonts-urw-base35, turn the symlinking script into a
debian/fonts-urw-base35.links file and add the autopkgtests as well.
May I add you to Uploaders?
Cheers,
- Fabian
