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  • Bug#259736: Problems with font dependencies

    From Markus Braun@1:229/2 to Philipp Matthias Hahn on Wed Aug 18 13:00:12 2004
    From: [email protected]

    Hi Philipp!

    On Thu, Aug 05, 2004 at 08:31:28AM +0200, Philipp Matthias Hahn ([email protected]) wrote:
    Sorry for the late answer, but I've been very busy with #252170.

    dito :)) except I've been on vacation

    On Mon, Jul 19, 2004 at 11:40:10AM +0200, Markus Braun wrote:
    I'm the maintainer of the Debian package of a little utility for IBM ThinkPad, called tpb. This utility uses xosd for showing volume etc. To be on the safe side I thought it would be best if I use the font defined by "osd_default_font" of libxosd2 as the default font. Now I got an bug report (#259736), that my utility does not work because the user has "xfonts-base-transcoded" package not installed. I'm wondering if I should add this package to my dependencies or if possibly you might add it to the debendencies of libxosd, because the library uses a font as default font? Or do you think it's up to the user to install the correct font on his own?

    I've added a "Suggests: xfonts-base-transcoded" to libxosd2_2.2.8-2 just uploaded to experimental. I'm reluctant to add it as a Depends, because
    the transcoded fonts packages are huge and xosd id working perfectly
    fine with a "C" or "POSIX" locale. The problem arises from those locales where special glyphs are needed to create the FontSet.
    I also put the README.Debian in all xosd packages to make it easier to
    find.

    From my point of view this is a good solution for this. I also add a README.Debian (shameless copied from yours) and added the suggestion to transcoded fonts. I think this should be sufficient.

    Markus Braun

    PS: there is a typeo in your README.Debian: doen't -> doesn't

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  • From Philipp Matthias Hahn@1:229/2 to Markus Braun on Thu Aug 5 09:00:13 2004
    From: [email protected]

    Hi Markus!

    Sorry for the late answer, but I've been very busy with #252170.

    On Mon, Jul 19, 2004 at 11:40:10AM +0200, Markus Braun wrote:
    I'm the maintainer of the Debian package of a little utility for IBM ThinkPad, called tpb. This utility uses xosd for showing volume etc. To be
    on the safe side I thought it would be best if I use the font defined by "osd_default_font" of libxosd2 as the default font. Now I got an bug report (#259736), that my utility does not work because the user has "xfonts-base-transcoded" package not installed. I'm wondering if I should
    add this package to my dependencies or if possibly you might add it to the debendencies of libxosd, because the library uses a font as default font?
    Or do you think it's up to the user to install the correct font on his own?

    I've added a "Suggests: xfonts-base-transcoded" to libxosd2_2.2.8-2 just uploaded to experimental. I'm reluctant to add it as a Depends, because
    the transcoded fonts packages are huge and xosd id working perfectly
    fine with a "C" or "POSIX" locale. The problem arises from those locales
    where special glyphs are needed to create the FontSet.
    I also put the README.Debian in all xosd packages to make it easier to
    find.

    Any further suggenstions from your side are welcomed.

    BYtE
    Philipp
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