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Bug#1039955: fonts-liberation should provide /usr/share/fonts/truetype/liberation2 for backwards compatibility



Hi Nilesh,

Am Freitag, dem 30.06.2023 um 08:53 +0530 schrieb Nilesh Patra:
> Could you consider to vendor truetype/liberation2 as a symlink to
> truetype/liberation?

sure, I could do that. But then we'd end up again with two entries in
the file system for the same (in this case even identical) font.
Getting rid of this was the main incentive for this transition in the
first place.

I don't expect many packages to depend on the precise location of the
font files in the file system at all, we have fontconfig for this. The
actual transition from fonts-liberation2 to fonts-liberation (>= 1:2)
will be short and painless: You literally only have to change one char
in the path names.

In other words, I am reluctant to add additional complexity to the
transitional dummy package to ease a transition that's as complex as
changing a single char in a path name for depending packages.

I hope you understand.

Cheers,

 - Fabian

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