On Sun, 2007-11-11 at 10:20 -0500, Qianqian Fang wrote: > hi tchaikov > > did you do anything to use the uncompressed pcf? > > From Debian guideline, pcf should be compressed, > > http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-customized-programs.html#s11.8.5 > I think it did not anticipate huge pcf files such as in xfonts-wqy. > > In order to make rending large PCF files faster (which is quite > necessary in this case), we can either contact a senior > maintainer (or mentor) to obtain an exception (with a full > illustration of the problem), or play with the postinst/postrm > scripts to uncompress/compress the files. The former way is preferred. >
I would suggest bring up a thread at debian-devel mailing list for further discussion, especially for the issue of performance penalty brought by compression. > PS: will this conversation be posted on Debian bug report? > That'll be done by CCing <bug number>@bugs.debian.org, which you've already done :) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
