On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 12:01 AM, repo-font-audit <nicolas.mailhot@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Dear packager, [snip] > To stop receiving this message, you need to: > 1. drop the font files or fix their packaging; > 2. relay the fonts issues to the fonts upstream to get them revised; > 3. work with the code upstream to improve the way it accesses font > files (usually by making it use fontconfig through a higher-level > text library such as pango, pango-cairo, harfbuzz, or QT) I maintain multiple packages that use core fonts. I do not have the expertise to migrate those packages, all of which are large and complex, to a new font system. I have neither the time nor the interest to gain that expertise. The upstreams, save one, have expressed 0 interest in doing that work themselves. The one that has expressed interest, XEmacs, currently has a half-baked fontconfig/Xft implementation that is stalled because the programmers that started it went on to other things without finishing it. So it appears to me that this message is really saying: 1) I'm going to nag you forever about a problem you can't fix. 2) There is no way to make me stop nagging you. I want a switch that says, "Yes, I know this application uses core fonts. It isn't going to change. Shut up, please." -- Jerry James, who thought he was doing the Fedora community a favor when he rescued gcl from the bit bin http://www.jamezone.org/ -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
