[Bug 507637] Missing fontset info

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--- Comment #9 from Nicolas Mailhot <nicolas.mailhot at laposte.net>  2009-06-29 03:46:50 EDT ---
(In reply to comment #7)
> I am thinking if I should apply for making cjkuni-fonts into cjkuni-uming-fonts
> and cjkuni-ukai-fonts as they have two separated source tarball now?

If upstream releases the fonts in separate tarballs now and if that can
simplify the specs this is certainly the right thing to do (this is why
guidelines recommend splitting)

Experience shows maintenance of complex multi-spec fonts is a lot more
expensive than that of simple spec files.

> Also, the font.{dir,scale} generated are not right (missing iso8859-13). There
> are scale.{dir,scale} provided inside the tarballs. I am still trying to
> contact upstream about this issue.  

mkfontdir & friends have always been unreliable and broken. core fonts usage
just needs to die, it is pretty much hopeless reliability-wise. Therefore it's
usually a better investment to ask people who complain of core fonts brokeness
to port their apps to fontconfig than try to fix a system that has been failing
consistently for more than a decade

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