On Fri, 22 Nov 2019 09:09:24 -0800, Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> wrote: > Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org> writes: > > I don't think this change is good as-is. The "don't depend on X font > > packages" is still very much relevant, for applications that use the > > "traditional" X font system, where the X server loads the fonts. The X > > server can still be on a different machine from the client. > > Argh, you are of course entirely correct, so I think this change may be > wrong. I just tested and indeed traditional bitmap fonts are still loaded > from the X server, not from the client. I had thought I'd tested that > before but tested it incorrectly. Yes, thanks Julien for pointing that out, I’ll follow up with a patch to revert the change and update the explanation to remove mention of font servers. Regards, Stephen
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