Paul Wise reported that
the
transition from defoma to fontconfig is finally complete. Defoma is
the Debian-specific font manager, long unmaintained, while the
replacement (fontconfig) is cross-distribution and also has wide support
from upstreams. In the past three years the
Debian Fonts Task Force
has worked a lot in order to gain this result, thanks especially to the
work of Christian Perrier and Paul Wise. Please note that the transition
is not completely smooth: "Xorg does not yet support fontconfig so for
now programs relying on server-side fonts will only be able to use the
xfonts- packages shipping their fonts in the directories known
by the X server" and in addition "there are some
issues with Ghostscript and
CJK", Paul said.