* Fabian Greffrath <fab...@greffrath.com> [220727 23:01]: [..] > My stance on this: In theory it should be technically possible to replace > the gsfonts (and gsfonts-x11) package with fonts-urw-base35 and I believe > this would be the right step, given that the latter font set is actively > maintained and extended - and actually used by ghostscript both upstream and > in Debian. And as a matter of fact, I have prepared this transition since I > uploaded the fonts-urw-base35 package for the first time. So, why haven't I > triggered this transition yet? [..] > So, to summarize: Yes, I think we should replace gsfonts+gsfonts-x11 with > fonts-urw-base35 at a given time and this transition is already prepared for > the most part. But I don't see this as a pressing issue right now, given the > lack of real-world issues this apparently causes, given the lack of bug > reports we received during the past 5 years - and given how late in the > release cycle we are to introduce a potentially disruptive change like this.
Maybe now is the time? Chris
