X Server 1.19.6-2 , xset does not add ghostscript fonts for xfig

[Ken Brown]

On 3/20/2018 2:13 PM, Achim Gratz wrote:
> Ken Brown writes:
>>> The 35 core postscript fonts are now in
>>> /usr/share/fonts/urw-base35. But I'm not sure what you have to do to
>>> make xfig find them.
>>
>> I just looked at Fedora's xfig packaging
>> (https://src.fedoraproject.org/cgit/rpms/xfig.git), and the two most
>> recent commits fix issues with the urw fonts.  So maybe Cygwin's xfig
>> needs something similar.
> 
> I might do that although these patches look extra hairy.  But, reading
> the commit messages I start to wonder if it's not the URW font package
> that needs fixing (there might still be a need to patch some things in
> xfig)?  I'd not want to fl<y in some patches that don't actually fix the
> problem, but just shove it further out.

What a mess!

There's a comment just yesterday at

   https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1551219#c8

suggesting that there will be some Fedora changes in the urw font 
package coming this week.  So let's wait for the dust to settle, and 
then I hope we can just copy whatever solution Fedora comes up with.

Ken

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