Hey everyone, So I thought I'd get some thoughts on the font aliases situation. I haven't done all the research yet, so this is also partially a cheap way of asking for someone more knowledgeable than me to explain it so I don't have to go code diving for a few hours :-)
Briefly, many fonts need an alias. The most important example of the function of these aliases is to provide the "fixed" font which the X server requires to run. This seems to be all that's stopping me from running the modular server in a chroot from packages, although I did have to do a few manual symlinks that'll be handled by one of the -common packages. So anyway, these aliases are important. Currently, the aliases for the various fonts are kept in a separate module from the fonts themselves by upstream (font/alias). This appears to be problematic, since the alias file seems to be statically generated. Now we have the update-font-aliases tool that Branden wrote, which I just put in to font/util/debian/local which will currently install with xfonts-utils. I haven't looked at this tool in depth yet, but it might not be immediately useable with the new organization. Either way, we have to decide what to do with the aliases shipped by upstream. Do we ship an xfonts-aliases package that includes all the aliases in font/alias? Alternately, we can copy the individual font.alias files installed by the upstream alias module to their individual packages. Upstream has grouped them by 100dpi, 75dpi, misc, and cyrillic, which matches our own previous and current package structure currently, so there shouldn't be a problem. I'd just drop them in the debian dir and install them. I'm leaning towards this latter solution, although I'm not sure this is the correct method. Comments? - David Nusinow -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
