[Bug 477336] [freefont] Please convert to new font packaging guidelines

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--- Comment #20 from Nicolas Mailhot <nicolas.mailhot at laposte.net>  2009-02-23 12:06:05 EDT ---
(In reply to comment #19)
> How does a compat subpackage doing the same thing *not* kill modularity?

Because nothing depends on the compat package, it can be removed, and new
installes do not even see it exists

> 8: But it does.  I'll have another look at the templates.
> 
> As far as doc changes, maybe it's just me, but I find concrete examples to be
> more illuminating that templates.  Could just be my learning style, but I had
> more luck understanding what needed to be done (or so I thought) by looking at
> the already-converted specs that at the templates.

The problem with concrete example is a "pure" package is rather uncommon and
blind cut & pasting results in copying quirks.

But if you want to look at concrete converted packages, certainly there is no
lack of them.

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