[Pkg-cups-devel] Bug#662660: cups-filters: Please drop ttf-freefonts and use fontconfig to find the best-matching similar font

[Fabian Greffrath]

Package: cups-filters
Version: 1.0.2-1
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch

Hi,

I am sorry I feel the need to re-iterate #495598, but cups's and now cups-
filters's hard dependency on ttf-freefonts package is still disturbing me.
However, this time I provide a patch.

I don't think that the cups-filters - especially the texttopdf filter - should
rely on symlinks to actual TTF fontfiles named after the file names listed in
the pdf.utf-8.* maps. Instead, if the symlink in question does not exist or
does not lead to a valid TTF font file, the filter should ask fontconfig what
the next best matching font is. That is what fontconfig is
actually for. This way, the hard dependency on ttf-freefonts could get demoted
to a Recommends or at least get some alternative dependencies added. \o/

TL;DR: Please review the attached patch!

Cheers,
Fabian



-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (901, 'testing'), (501, 'unstable'), (101, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 3.1.0-1-686-pae (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.utf8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages cups-filters depends on:
ii  ghostscript      9.05~dfsg-2
ii  libc6            2.13-26
ii  libcups2         1.5.2-5
ii  libcupsfilters1  1.0.2-1
ii  libcupsimage2    1.5.2-5
ii  libgcc1          1:4.6.2-12
ii  libijs-0.35      0.35-8
ii  liblcms2-2       2.2+git20110628-2
ii  libpoppler13     0.16.7-3
ii  libstdc++6       4.6.2-12
ii  ttf-freefont     20100919-1
ii  zlib1g           1:1.2.6.dfsg-1

Versions of packages cups-filters recommends:
pn  colord            0.1.16-2
pn  foomatic-filters  <none>
pn  ghostscript-cups  <none>

Versions of packages cups-filters suggests:
pn  foomatic-db-compressed-ppds | foomatic-db  <none>
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