Remove debian-old directory #2946
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I'm plus one for removing it as we should ideally have the ./configure stuff correctly setup for "everyone", however, since I'm not the one building compiled releases, this is best answered by @frank-trampe and @jtanx. |
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Hi @JoesCat, I also thought about all those things, but it turns out that that directory is just an old snapshot of the Debian packaging stuff. Years ago (commit 97843f0) @frank-trampe disconnected that directory from the whole build system and has been left there to take dust. As I wrote in the commit message, the Debian maintainers reassured me in http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-fonts-devel/2016-November/018587.html that...
WRT integrating patches, there is only one non-Debian specific patch that I have found in the Debian repository (and not in |
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As far as I remember, I never used the contents of the directory, and I'm not sure whether they were ever used upstream. |
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Would it be worth moving fontforge.xpm into the desktop/icon-older directory? |
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Hi @gioele - i think i probably broke this merge by moving a file out (for old nostalgic reasons). Thanks, |
The packaging files for Debian are stored in `Packaging/debian` since commit 58a4dfb. The Debian maintainers confirmed that that directory is not used by them, see the thread "debian-old directory in fontforge: somehow useful?". [1] [1] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-fonts-devel/2016-November/018587.html
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Remove debian-old directory
The packaging files for Debian are stored in
Packaging/debiansincecommit 58a4dfb.
The Debian maintainers confirmed that that directory is not used by them,
see the thread "debian-old directory in fontforge: somehow useful?". [1]
[1] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-fonts-devel/2016-November/018587.html