Chapter 11. Customized programs

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shipped, such as their license information). If one or more of the fonts so packaged are

necessary for proper operation of the package with which they are associated the font

package may be Recommended; if the fonts merely provide an enhancement, a Suggests

relationship may be used. Packages must not Depend on font packages.

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2 BDF fonts must be converted to PCF fonts with the

bdftopcf

utility (available in the

xutils

package,

gzip

ped, and placed in a directory that corresponds to their resolu 

tion:

  100 dpi fonts must be placed in

/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/

.

  75 dpi fonts must be placed in

/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/

.

  Character cell fonts, cursor fonts, and other low resolution fonts must be placed in

/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/

.

3 Speedo fonts must be placed in

/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo/

.

4 Type 1 fonts must be placed in

/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/

. If font metric

files are available, they must be placed here as well.

5 Subdirectories of

/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/

other than those listed above must

be neither created nor used. (The

PEX

,

CID

, and

cyrillic

directories are excepted for

historical reasons, but installation of files into these directories remains discouraged.)

6 Font packages may, instead of placing files directly in the X font directories listed above,

provide symbolic links in that font directory pointing to the files' actual location in the

filesystem. Such a location must comply with the FHS.

7 Font packages should not contain both 75dpi and 100dpi versions of a font. If both are

available, they should be provided in separate binary packages with

 75dpi

or

 100dpi

appended to the names of the packages containing the corresponding fonts.

8 Fonts destined for the

misc

subdirectory should not be included in the same package

as 75dpi or 100dpi fonts; instead, they should be provided in a separate package with

 misc

appended to its name.

9 Font packages must not provide the files

fonts.dir

,

fonts.alias

, or

fonts.scale

in a font directory:

fonts.dir

files must not be provided at all.

fonts.alias

and

fonts.scale

files, if needed, should be provided in the di 

rectory

/etc/X11/fonts/

fontdir

/

package

.

extension

, where fontdir is the

name of the subdirectory of

/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/

where the pack 

age's corresponding fonts are stored (e.g.,

75dpi

or

misc

), package is the name

of the package that provides these fonts, and extension is either

scale

or

alias

,

whichever corresponds to the file contents.

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This is because the X server may retrieve fonts from the local file system or over the network from an X font

server; the Debian package system is empowered to deal only with the local file system.