severity 960503 normal retitle 960503 After upgrade from 1.40 fonts are no longer enabled thanks
On Wed, May 13, 2020 at 01:16:32PM +0200, Jochen Sprickerhof wrote: > Severity: grave > Justification: renders package unusable Well, the package is not unusable. It is usable by all X programs which do not rely on fontconfig. On the other hand, programs which rely on fontconfig should probably use the fonts in fonts-terminus-otb instead of the fonts in this package. Practically, this means that most users should install fonts-terminus-otb instead xfonts-terminus. > the new version lacks the 50-enable-terminus.conf, meaning the fonts are > not usable anymore. Please either add a dependency to fonts-terminus-otb > (as long as you don't apply #960502) or create the file(s) again. Returning 50-enable-terminus.conf to xfonts-terminus is not good because programs relying on fontconfig should use fonts-terminus-otb instead. (If a program is based on GTK it is unable to use PCF fonts no matter how we configure fontconfig). Dependency on fonts-terminus-otb is not good because programs which are able to use the fonts of xfonts-terminus don't need the fonts in fonts-terminus-otb. And yes, I am considering applying the patch (or a similar one) in #960502. I don't like the fact that after upgrade the Terminus fonts are not enabled. But I am not sure what is the proper fix for this. One possible course of action would be to: 1. rename xfonts-terminus => xfonts-terminus-pcf 2. create an empty package xfonts-terminus depending on both xfonts-terminus-pcf and fonts-terminus-otb But isn't this an overkill? Anton Zinoviev
