Package for debian

[lucy]

would be nice to get some help with this

[ghost]

I am no debian user, but here is what I found:

Other bitmap fonts:

• M+
• Dr. Manop Thai fonts
• Bitmap Mule
• JIS X (kanji)
• Unifont

For mosts, it is /usr/share/fonts/X11/misc/<fontname>.pcf.

This blog post said that dpkg -b ~/tewi-font/ tewi-font_<version>_all.deb builds the package.

~/tewi-font:

• The directory structure to be installed in the debian system of the user from its root dir. For unifont, it is:

  usr
  └── share
      ├── doc                             <- not required?
      │   └── xfonts-unifont
      │       ├── changelog.Debian.gz
      │       ├── changelog.gz
      │       ├── copyright
      │       └── README.gz
      └── fonts
          └── X11
              └── misc
                  ├── unifont_csur.pcf.gz
                  ├── unifont.pcf.gz
                  └── unifont_sample.pcf.gz
  

• debian-binary: for xfonts-unifont a file with a single line: 2.0.

• DEBIAN directory with in it a few files that may be built using helpers (5.- Building the Debian files skeleton):

  • control. For xfonts-unifont:

    Package: xfonts-unifont
    Source: unifont
    Version: 1:7.0.06-1
    Architecture: all
    [...]
    

  • md5sums,

  • Post-install scripts if needed.

[ix]

This would be great! I use Testing, and if I can help out in any way, please let me know. I can attempt to build a package if you would like.

[ghost]

Hello everyone,

I've packaged it for debian and made a repository: https://github.com/helvetie/dpkgs.

The package itself is solid, but the apt repository might not be — I'm tempted to add multi-arch packages, which might change the hierarchy and make your apt complain ; I'm not sure.

Still, you'll always be able to get the debianized sources from the master branch, and I won't touch the apt repo carelessly.

Thank you!