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ttf-dejavu package

  1. Bug #574409
  2. Comment #1

Comment 1 for bug 574409

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Arne Goetje (arnegoetje) wrote : Re: [Bug 574409] [NEW] font not available as X font after installation

On 05/03/2010 08:08 PM, Erik Devriendt wrote:
> Public bug reported:
>
> Binary package hint: ttf-dejavu
>
> In 8.04LTS the dejavu truetype font becomes avalailable as X font: it shows up in the results of xlsfonts. This means that programs using
> basic X windows functions (Xlib, Xt or even Motif) can use the fonts.
> However, in 10.04LTS this is not the case anymore.
>
> Why?

This was handled by defoma before. The font packages installed a hints
file and defoma generated the X information out of it. Recently the
debian font maintainers decided, that they want to drop defoma, since it
is unmaintained. The relevant thread is here [1] and the best place to
raise issues with this decision is this list [2].

[1]
http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-fonts-devel/2009-November/003438.html
[2] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-fonts-devel