file dependencies and packages and [blocker] bugs

[Hans de Goede]

Bill Nottingham wrote:
> Kevin Kofler (kevin.kofler at chello.at) said: 
>> Hans de Goede <j.w.r.degoede <at> hhs.nl> writes:
>>> Maybe some more backgroundinfo on these apps:
>>> 1) They originally both ship with copies of Arial (!= free) in there tarbals,
>>> which get installed into the apps own data dir under /usr/share/app.
>>> 2) I've ripped these out of the src-tarbal (and the resulting package) and 
>>> replaced them with symlinks to the same style fonts from vera / dejavu.
>> If those were originally using Arial, wouldn't Liberation Sans be a better 
>> replacement now that it's available? (Rationale: It has compatible metrics.)
> 
> So, maybe I'm insane, but if all you want is a sans bold, etc. font - that
> can't be more than about 20 lines of fontconfig code to look for a match
> for the 'sans' pattern and get a filename. That way:
> 
> - you don't have to hardcode any files
> - you don't have to hardcode any requirements
>


Erm, yes and our mantra is upstream, and most of these apps are portable 
(using SDL + SDL_ttf for example), how am I going to get this upstream, 
last I checked there was no fontconfig under windows, let alone on 
devices like the gp2x.

Really this is not a problem of the apps, people should stop thinking 
about this as being a problem of the apps, there are just too many apps 
doing this, this should be fixed centrally.

Regards,

Hans