Re: Bug#234942: tipa: /var/lib/dpkg/info/tipa.prerm

[Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@debian.org>]

package tipa
tags 234942 + help
thank

* Jan Behrend <jbehrend@mpifr-bonn.mpg.de> [2004-09-03 14:26]:

> Package: tipa
> Version: 1:1.1.beta-3
> Followup-For: Bug #234942
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I think this bug is due to the following line in /var/lib/dpkg/info/tipa.prerm:
> 
>         /usr/bin/defoma-font purge-all-all $FILE
> 
> this should say 
> 
> 	/usr/bin/defoma-font purge-all $FILE

Thank you for the followup on this.  I am Cc:ing this reply to
debian-mentors because I do not know exactly what I have to do.  Please Cc:
any followup to 234942@bugs.debian.org (as set in Reply-To:).

Your suggestion was already implemented over two years ago, as per the
following changelog.Debian entry:

tipa (1:1.1.beta-4) unstable; urgency=low

  * debian/rules: Remove hack for fixing the code from
    prerm-defoma-hints.  The prerm script contains now purge-all and not
    purge-all-all.  (This closes: #145519, thanks to Gerfried Fuchs
    <alfie@debian.org>).

 -- Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@debian.org>  Thu,  2 May 2002 22:02:23 +0200

The problem is that tipa has version version 1:1.1.beta-3 in woody (i.e. the
fix above came too late). Furthermore, the sarge version of the package
contains the following "fix":

tipa (2:1.1-2) unstable; urgency=low

  * Moved the defoma-hints file to the xfonts-tipa package.  It was
    erroneously associated with the tipa package, and was causing nasty
    warnings when abiword-common was installed with tipa but without
    xfonts-tipa (closes: #161076).  Thanks to Ian Zimmerman
    <itz@speakeasy.org>.

 -- Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@debian.org>  Tue, 17 Sep 2002 08:11:53 +0200
 
I think that I have messed too much with the prerm scripts of bothe the tipa
and the xfonts-tipa packages. Unfortunately, fixing things right now is far
beyond what I can afford from my free time budget.  Please, help me.

-- 
Rafael