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