Bug#661863: Bug#661764: dangling symlink /usr/share/ghostscript/9.05/Resource/CIDFSubst/DroidSansFallback.ttf

["Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo" <manuel.montezelo@gmail.com>]

Hi,

2012-05-17 03:49 Jonas Smedegaard:
> On 12-05-16 at 09:59am, Ian Zimmerman wrote:
> > Just BTW, installing fonts-droid doesn't do away with the broken
> > symlink:
> >
> >  [9+0]~# dpkg --status fonts-droid
> > Package: fonts-droid
> > Status: install ok installed
> > Priority: optional
> > Section: fonts
> > Installed-Size: 8893
> > Maintainer: Debian Fonts Task Force <pkg-fonts-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org>
> > Architecture: all
> > Version: 20111207+git-1
> >  ... elided ...
> >  [10+0]~# dpkg -S /usr/share/ghostscript/9.05/Resource/CIDFSubst/DroidSansFallback.ttf
> > libgs9-common: /usr/share/ghostscript/9.05/Resource/CIDFSubst/DroidSansFallback.ttf
> >  [11+0]~# file /usr/share/ghostscript/9.05/Resource/CIDFSubst/DroidSansFallback.ttf
> > /usr/share/ghostscript/9.05/Resource/CIDFSubst/DroidSansFallback.ttf: broken symbolic link to `../../../../fonts/truetype/droid/DroidSansFallback.ttf'
> >
> > Perhaps that is the reason why the font substitution doesn't work?
> >
> > Also, in the target directory of the symlink there is a file with a
> > similar (but not quite the same) name:
> >
> >  [13+0]~# ls /usr/share/fonts/truetype/droid/*Fallback*
> > /usr/share/fonts/truetype/droid/DroidSansFallbackFull.ttf
> >
> > WTH is really going on here?
>
> Oh. You are right!
>
> Fixed in git now.  Unfortunately doesn't make Ghostscript use that Font
> :-(

Still broken in Stretch, and in unstable:

 $ echo /usr/share/ghostscript/*/Resource/CIDFSubst/
 /usr/share/ghostscript/9.22/Resource/CIDFSubst/

 $ file /usr/share/ghostscript/9.22/Resource/CIDFSubst/DroidSansFallback.ttf
 /usr/share/ghostscript/9.22/Resource/CIDFSubst/DroidSansFallback.ttf: broken symbolic link to ../../../../fonts/truetype/droid/DroidSansFallbackFull.ttf


Cheers.
--
Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo <manuel.montezelo@gmail.com>