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defoma
- Rationale: defoma is unmaintained and Debian-specific. fontconfig is a maintained and cross-distro replacement that is already in Debian. We should migrate everything to fontconfig and drop defoma.
All bugs: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?users=pabs@debian.org;tag=defoma-removal
- Migration of packages with defoma backends to fontconfig
Status: bugs filed
Xorg: Xorg is tricky. It uses defoma via x-ttcidfont-conf and --with-default-font-path=...defoma.... Fixing it should be a matter of removing defoma from its FontPath and fixing 539338. No bug filed about the FontPath change yet, once it is done, x-ttcidfont-conf can be removed too. Upstream plans to switch to fontconfig, but we shouldn't expect that to happen any time soon.
- Conversion of defoma hints in fonts packages to fontconfig snippets
- Status: all hints removed
- Drop defoma backend from fontconfig
- Status: bug filed
- Drop defoma from unstable
- Status: bug filed, blockers added
- Defoma deprecation in infrastructure stuff; lintian, etc
- Status: not started
- Drop defoma documentation from wiki, website etc
- Status: not started