Package: wnpp Severity: normal Hi,
The X Strike Force would like to get rid of xfs; it's not needed in most (all?) use cases, since most X clients now use Xft and/or pango to render text, not core X fonts (even emacs, these days! :)) So xfs wants to either get removed or get a new maintainer. Maybe LTSP people, if they still use this? Description: X font server xfs is a daemon that listens on a network port and serves X fonts to X servers (and thus to X clients). All X servers have the ability to serve locally installed fonts for themselves, but xfs makes it possible to offload that job from the X server, and/or have a central repository of fonts on a networked machine running xfs so that all the machines running X servers on a network do not require their own set of fonts. xfs may also be invoked by users to, for instance, make available X fonts in user accounts that are not available to the X server or to an already running system xfs. Current packaging is at git://git.debian.org/git/pkg-xorg/app/xfs Cheers, Julien -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-wnpp-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
