Package: texlive-base Version: 2012.20120611-5 Severity: minor Hello,
I am currently packaging the updated urw-base35 font set. In the course of that, I asked myself about the purpose of the .pfm files that accompany each individual font. It turns out that these files contain the same information as the .afm metric files in a binary format and are only used on Windows systems. This left me confident that it's a good choice to drop these files from the Debian package, until I found out that at least the texlive-base, texlive- fonts-extra, texlive-fonts-recommended and texlive-pictures packages do also ship those files for (some of) the included fonts. Now the question arises: Does TeX somehow, in any way, use or need these files or are they really fine to drop on non-Windows platforms. I am going to make my decision to keep these files depending on yours, since there are no other packages installed on my (rather complete with regard to fonts, TeX, X, ..) Debian system that contain .pfm files. Best regards, - Fabian -- System Information: Debian Release: jessie/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (990, 'stable'), (900, 'unstable'), (700, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 3.10-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages texlive-base depends on: ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.50 ii dpkg 1.16.10 ii install-info 5.1.dfsg.1-4 ii libpaper-utils 1.1.24+nmu2 ii luatex 0.70.1.20120524-3 ii tex-common 4.03 ii texlive-binaries 2012.20120628-4 ii texlive-common 2012.20120611-5 ii texlive-doc-base 2012.20120611-1 ii ucf 3.0027+nmu1 ii xdg-utils 1.1.0~rc1+git20111210-7 Versions of packages texlive-base recommends: ii lmodern 2.004.4-3 Versions of packages texlive-base suggests: ii evince [postscript-viewer] 3.4.0-3.1+b1 ii ghostscript [postscript-viewer] 9.05~dfsg-8 pn perl-tk <none> pn xpdf-reader | pdf-viewer <none> Versions of packages tex-common depends on: ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.50 ii dpkg 1.16.10 ii ucf 3.0027+nmu1 Versions of packages tex-common suggests: ii debhelper 9.20130720 Versions of packages texlive-base is related to: ii tex-common 4.03 ii texlive-binaries 2012.20120628-4 -- debconf information: tex-common/check_texmf_wrong: texlive-base/binary_chooser: pdftex, dvips, dvipdfmx, xdvi tex-common/check_texmf_missing: texlive-base/texconfig_ignorant: -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
