On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 12:48:49PM +0100, fab...@greffrath.com wrote:
Am 18.02.2011 11:33, schrieb Jonas Smedegaard: There is currently a discussion on gs-devel to merge the urwcyr 1.0.7pre44 fonts that Debian ships in their gsfonts package into the fonts that ghostscript ships: <http://ghostscript.com/pipermail/gs-devel/2011-February/008891.html>There are some news: According to this thread http://ghostscript.com/pipermail/gs-devel/2011-March/008939.html ghostscript upstream is going to revert the shipped fonts to the original URW++ fonts in one of the next releases. Their argumentation is plausibel, as they want to resemble the Adobe fonts as closely as possible and do not gain any advantadge by adding additional glyphs (of dubious quality). I believe, Debian should ship these fonts as well in a separate package and drop the urwcyr, i.e. gsfonts, package altogether. People who need the URW++ fonts with additional glyphs should be adviced to use the TeX Gyre fonts instead.
NB! For the record, I did not write any of the above - you wrote yourself the part that you quoted, Fabian :-)
Thanks for the update. I agree with your opinion on how to aprroach this for Debian.
Thing is, gsfonts is not mine to deal with. But that shouldn't stop others (yourself, Fabian?) from packaging URW++ fonts from its true source - and then change this bugreport into a request for removal of that (then obsolete) package.
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