Hi Anton, * Anton Zinoviev <[email protected]> [2020-05-13 15:16]:
Well, the package is not unusable. It is usable by all X programs which do not rely on fontconfig.
I agree.
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.
I'm ok with that, except I found that I had to adopt the width of the otb version by 0.85 to resemble the one of the pcf. Specifically I compared Terminus:pixelsize=14 to ter-u14n_iso-8859-1.pcf.gz in the suckless terminal st, setting cwscale=0.85 in the config. Is the different width on purpose?
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?
I agree, maybe add a Recommends: fonts-terminus-otb so people upgrading from xfonts-terminus still have a working setup?
Cheers Jochen
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