Package: xfonts-utils Version: 1:7.7+6 Severity: normal The -t and -i flags for bdftopcf are documented thus:
-t When this option is specified, bdftopcf will convert fonts into "terminal" fonts when possible. A terminal font has each glyph image padded to the same size; the X server can usually render these types of fonts more quickly. -i This option inhibits the normal computation of ink metrics. When a font has glyph images which do not fill the bitmap image (i.e., the "on" pixels don't extend to the edges of the metrics) bdftopcf computes the actual ink metrics and places them in the .pcf file; the -t option inhibits this behaviour. However, looking at the source code bdftopcf.c, they are both parsed, but ignored. I suggest changing the man page to read: -t, -i Ignored. Further, it may be worth patching the code, as currently it reads: case 't': /* attempt to make terminal fonts if possible */ if (argv[0][2] != '\0') goto usage; break; case 'i': /* inhibit ink metric computation */ if (argv[0][2] != '\0') goto usage; break; It might make sense to add a “TODO:” at the start of each comment. Further investigation might reveal that the flags used to do something, but the above changes would at least help reduce confusion without prejudice to (unlikely?) future improvements. -- System Information: Debian Release: bullseye/sid APT prefers focal-updates APT policy: (500, 'focal-updates'), (500, 'focal-security'), (500, 'focal'), (100, 'focal-backports') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 5.4.0-54-generic (SMP w/16 CPU cores) Kernel taint flags: TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_GB (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled Versions of packages xfonts-utils depends on: ii libc6 2.31-0ubuntu9.1 ii libfontenc1 1:1.1.4-0ubuntu1 ii libfreetype6 2.10.1-2ubuntu0.1 ii x11-common 1:7.7+19ubuntu14 ii xfonts-encodings 1:1.0.5-0ubuntu1 ii zlib1g 1:1.2.11.dfsg-2ubuntu1.2 xfonts-utils recommends no packages. xfonts-utils suggests no packages. -- no debconf information