Bug#977765: [Pkg-fonts-devel] Bug#977765: src:gsfonts: package superseded by fonts-urw-base35

2022-08-27 Thread Fabian Greffrath
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Am Samstag, dem 27.08.2022 um 19:40 +0200 schrieb Jonas Smedegaard: > Yes, Ghostscript contains a script update-gsfonts which makes use of > it. I see, thank you . So, I'll keep the file. Do you guys think I will have to post a heads-up to debian-d

Bug#977765: [Pkg-fonts-devel] Bug#977765: src:gsfonts: package superseded by fonts-urw-base35

2022-08-27 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Quoting Fabian Greffrath (2022-08-27 18:51:04) > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA256 > > @Jonas: Is the file /etc/ghostscript/fontmap.d/10fonts-urw-base35.conf > [1] even necessary now that the font files are directly symlinked in > the libgs9-common package? Yes, Ghostscript contai

Bug#977765: [Pkg-fonts-devel] Bug#977765: src:gsfonts: package superseded by fonts-urw-base35

2022-08-27 Thread Fabian Greffrath
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 @Jonas: Is the file /etc/ghostscript/fontmap.d/10fonts-urw-base35.conf [1] even necessary now that the font files are directly symlinked in the libgs9-common package? Cheers, - Fabian [1] https://salsa.debian.org/fonts-team/fonts-urw-base35/-/bl

Bug#977765: [Pkg-fonts-devel] Bug#977765: src:gsfonts: package superseded by fonts-urw-base35

2022-08-27 Thread Fabian Greffrath
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Am Freitag, dem 26.08.2022 um 09:52 +0200 schrieb Roland Rosenfeld: > Just go for it. I have just uploaded fonts-urw-base35_20200910-2 to experimental which takes over the gsfonts and gsfonts-x11 packages. So, if you guys could check if the transiti

Bug#977765: [Pkg-fonts-devel] Bug#977765: src:gsfonts: package superseded by fonts-urw-base35

2022-08-26 Thread fabian
Hallo Roland, Am 26.08.2022 09:52, schrieb Roland Rosenfeld: To say the truth, I still not fully understand how fonts work nowadays (my knowledge is stuck in 1999), so I'm not sure whether the fonts.scale/fonts.alias stuff in gsfonts-x11 is nowadays okay or an ugly workaround. For me it's the

Bug#977765: [Pkg-fonts-devel] Bug#977765: src:gsfonts: package superseded by fonts-urw-base35

2022-08-26 Thread Roland Rosenfeld
Hi Fabian! On Fr, 26 Aug 2022, fab...@greffrath.com wrote: > Am 25.08.2022 19:23, schrieb Roland Rosenfeld: > > I was curious, whether this is possible and so I just tried to patch > > gsfonts-x11 to use fonts-urw-base35 instead of gsfonts and it worked > > for me. I kept all font names in fonts

Bug#977765: [Pkg-fonts-devel] Bug#977765: src:gsfonts: package superseded by fonts-urw-base35

2022-08-25 Thread fabian
Hi Roland, Am 25.08.2022 19:23, schrieb Roland Rosenfeld: I was curious, whether this is possible and so I just tried to patch gsfonts-x11 to use fonts-urw-base35 instead of gsfonts and it worked for me. I kept all font names in fonts.scale and fonts.alias and only changed the referenced file n

Bug#977765: [Pkg-fonts-devel] Bug#977765: src:gsfonts: package superseded by fonts-urw-base35

2022-08-25 Thread Roland Rosenfeld
Hi! On Do, 25 Aug 2022, I wrote: > I also think about updating gsfonts-x11 to use fonts-urw-base35 (.t1 > files) instead of gsfonts (.pfb files), but I'm not fully sure how to > map the fonts since the full names in the fonts files look quite > different (but both contain 35 fonts, so a mapping s

Bug#977765: [Pkg-fonts-devel] Bug#977765: src:gsfonts: package superseded by fonts-urw-base35

2022-08-25 Thread Fabian Greffrath
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On Thu, 28 Jul 2022 10:21:17 +0200 Fabian Greffrath wrote: > > Maybe now is the time? > Indeed my plan is to tackle this issue in about four weeks. I currently despair of the format of the fonts.scale and fonts.alias files that are provided by the

Bug#977765: [Pkg-fonts-devel] Bug#977765: src:gsfonts: package superseded by fonts-urw-base35

2022-07-28 Thread Fabian Greffrath
Jonas Smedegaard , Paul Gevers Betreff: Re: Bug#977765: [Pkg-fonts-devel] Bug#977765: src:gsfonts: package superseded by fonts-urw-base35 * Fabian Greffrath [220727 23:01]:[..]> My stance on this: In theory it should be technically possible to replace> the gsfonts (and gsfonts-x11) package

Bug#977765: [Pkg-fonts-devel] Bug#977765: src:gsfonts: package superseded by fonts-urw-base35

2022-07-27 Thread Chris Hofstaedtler
* Fabian Greffrath [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

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Bug#977765: [Pkg-fonts-devel] Bug#977765: src:gsfonts: package superseded by fonts-urw-base35

2021-02-09 Thread Paul Gevers
Control: tag -1 bullseye-ignore Hi, On 09-02-2021 09:36, Fabian Greffrath wrote: > 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. To be fair, I think the commented out part

Bug#977765: [Pkg-fonts-devel] Bug#977765: src:gsfonts: package superseded by fonts-urw-base35

2021-02-09 Thread Fabian Greffrath
Hi all, Am 07.02.2021 22:51, schrieb Jonas Smedegaard: Added now explicitly. well, thanks. I can't wait to participate in this discussion. 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

Bug#977765: [Pkg-fonts-devel] Bug#977765: src:gsfonts: package superseded by fonts-urw-base35

2021-02-07 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Quoting Paul Gevers (2021-02-07 22:04:25) > Hi Jonas, > > On 07-02-2021 13:44, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > > Quoting Paul Gevers (2021-02-07 12:07:08) > >> With "quite some work" I mean that there are > 20 packages in testing > >> that need to change (are bugs already filed?). I understand from you

Bug#977765: [Pkg-fonts-devel] Bug#977765: src:gsfonts: package superseded by fonts-urw-base35

2021-02-07 Thread Paul Gevers
Hi Jonas, On 07-02-2021 13:44, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > Quoting Paul Gevers (2021-02-07 12:07:08) >> With "quite some work" I mean that there are > 20 packages in testing >> that need to change (are bugs already filed?). I understand from your >> explanation that we already have a "Provides" in

Bug#977765: [Pkg-fonts-devel] Bug#977765: src:gsfonts: package superseded by fonts-urw-base35

2021-02-07 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Quoting Paul Gevers (2021-02-07 12:07:08) > On 07-02-2021 11:05, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > >> And what are the consequences of that? Please assume I have no clue > >> how fontconfig works at all. > > [...] (elaborate explanation, thanks) > > >>> Feel free to lower severity or repurpose as a wish

Bug#977765: [Pkg-fonts-devel] Bug#977765: src:gsfonts: package superseded by fonts-urw-base35

2021-02-07 Thread Paul Gevers
Hi Jonas, On 07-02-2021 11:05, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: >> And what are the consequences of that? Please assume I have no clue >> how fontconfig works at all. [...] (elaborate explanation, thanks) >>> Feel free to lower severity or repurpose as a wishlist request to >>> document what is notable

Bug#977765: [Pkg-fonts-devel] Bug#977765: src:gsfonts: package superseded by fonts-urw-base35

2021-02-07 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Hi Paul, Quoting Paul Gevers (2021-02-07 07:00:34) > On Mon, 21 Dec 2020 15:35:04 +0100 Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > > > > Setting severity to serious, as this package is not fit for > > > > release. > > > > > > Why do you think the package is not fit for release? Because it > > > did not have a

Bug#977765: [Pkg-fonts-devel] Bug#977765: src:gsfonts: package superseded by fonts-urw-base35

2021-02-06 Thread Paul Gevers
Hi Jonas, On Mon, 21 Dec 2020 15:35:04 +0100 Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > > > Setting severity to serious, as this package is not fit for release. > > > > Why do you think the package is not fit for release? Because it did > > not have a maintainer upload for the last 10 years? It is static font

Bug#977765: [Pkg-fonts-devel] Bug#977765: src:gsfonts: package superseded by fonts-urw-base35

2020-12-21 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Quoting Fabian Greffrath (2020-12-21 15:01:21) > Am Sonntag, den 20.12.2020, 14:10 +0100 schrieb Jonas Smedegaard: > > This package has been superseded by fonts-urw-base35, which contains > > the same fonts but a newer release and using policy-compliant > > package name. > > indeed, I have prepa

Bug#977765: [Pkg-fonts-devel] Bug#977765: src:gsfonts: package superseded by fonts-urw-base35

2020-12-21 Thread Fabian Greffrath
Hi Jonas, Am Sonntag, den 20.12.2020, 14:10 +0100 schrieb Jonas Smedegaard: > This package has been superseded by fonts-urw-base35, which contains > the > same fonts but a newer release and using policy-compliant package > name. indeed, I have prepared fonts-urw-base35 to take over both gsfonts a

Bug#977765: src:gsfonts: package superseded by fonts-urw-base35

2020-12-20 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Package: src:gsfonts Version: 1:8.11+urwcyr1.0.7~pre44-4.5 Severity: serious X-Debbugs-Cc: Debian Fonts Task Force -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 This package has been superseded by fonts-urw-base35, which contains the same fonts but a newer release and using policy-compliant pa