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diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control new file mode 100644 index 0000000..5480815 --- /dev/null +++ b/debian/control @@ -0,0 +1,35 @@ +Source: xfonts-traditional +Maintainer: Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk> +Section: x11 +Priority: optional +Standards-Version: 3.9.2.0 +Build-Depends: xfonts-utils, pcf2bdf, debhelper (>=8), po-debconf + +Package: xfonts-traditional +Architecture: all +Depends: xfonts-utils, pcf2bdf, libsys-cpu-perl, ${misc:Depends}, ${perl:Depends} +Description: Traditional fixed-width fonts for X + Provides "traditional" versions of fixed-width fonts. + . + These are a set of 6x13 fonts (including "fixed"), with foundry name + "trad" instead of "misc", with several glyphs replaced with earlier + versions from before Markus Kuhn's changes: + - balanced ` ' + - less tall [ ] ( ) { } + - centred * + - high ~ + - slightly higher & + - traditional appearance of W a + . + These changes make the fonts compatible with the US-ASCII character + set. (UTF-8 is not compatible with ASCII in its usage of the + backquote and some other characters.) With these fonts, pre-2000 + documents (including ASCII art and GNU manuals) will render + correctly. + . + Optionally, this package will edit your system configuration to make + the default fonts used by xterm refer to the traditional font. + . + (This package does not actually contain the bulk of the font data; + rather, it automatically generates the required modified fonts for + each relevant font you have installed.) |