On Fri, Feb 13, 2004 at 09:00:21AM +0100, Hilmar Preusse wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> While working on #225004 and looking at #112140 we had a short
> discussion: We want to register some Postscript Type1-fonts using
> update-fonts-*. The package, which will call that command in its
> postin script needs to have a depend on xutils, but which version?
> >= 4.0.3 like it is written in the policy and automatically done by
> dh_installxfonts or (>= 4.1.0-12), cause there has been a changlog
> entry for update-fonts-*?
> I.e. is it sufficient to put in a ${misc:Depends} and leave the rest
> to dh_installxfonts or do we have to depend on xutils (>= 4.1.0-12)?
Here's the changelog entry in question:
* debian/local/update-fonts-{alias,dir,scale}: issue more warnings when
these commands are misused
This is not an interface change, so it's not necessary to update the
versioning of the dependency.
For what it's worth, there have been several changes to the update-fonts
utilities since 4.1.0-12:
xfree86 (4.2.1-13) unstable; urgency=low
[...]
* Improve efficiency of maintainer scripts and programs by using POSIX shell
parameter expansion (instead of using command substitution to run basename
on a shell variable argument).
- debian/local/dexconf
- debian/local/update-fonts-alias
- debian/local/update-fonts-dir
- debian/local/update-fonts-scale
- debian/xserver-common.postinst.in
- debian/xserver-common.postrm.in
- debian/xserver-common.preinst.in
- debian/xserver-xfree86.config.in
- debian/xserver-xfree86.postinst.in
- debian/xserver-xfree86.postrm.in
- debian/xserver-xfree86.preinst.in
- debian/xserver-xfree86.prerm.in
[...]
-- Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 2003 12:43:26 -0500
xfree86 (4.2.1-7) unstable; urgency=medium
[...]
* debian/{local/update-fonts-{dir,scale}},rules,xserver-common.postinst.in,
xserver-xfree86.config.in}: invoke head, tail, and diff commands in a
POSIXly correct fashion (thanks, Paul Eggert) (Closes: #191669)
[...]
* debian/local/update-fonts-scale: only write fonts to the .scale file that
actually exist, so that removed-but-not-purged scalable font packages do
not register nonexistent fonts; this has the desirable side effect that
the count at the top of the file is also omitted (based on a patch by
Roland Rosenfeld) (Closes: #193185)
[...]
-- Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org> Thu, 29 May 2003 11:24:29 -0500
xfree86 (4.2.1-4) unstable; urgency=low
[...]
* debian/local/update-fonts-{alias,dir,scale}: reworked diagnostic messages
a bit; produce them with shell functions
* debian/local/update-fonts-{alias,dir,scale}.8: updated; added sections on
operands and diagnostics; other minor edits
[...]
-- Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org> Mon, 18 Nov 2002 04:24:48 -0500
xfree86 (4.2.0-0pre1v3) unstable; urgency=low
[...]
* patch #077: new; define DriverManSuffix as 4x and MiscManSuffix as 7x on
GNU and Linux systems per suggestion from Colin Watson (see #157020)
(Closes: #85297)
[...]
* debian/local/{XF86Config.7,Xsession.5,Xsession.options.5,
Xwrapper.config.5,dexconf.8,update-fonts-alias.8,update-fonts-dir.8,
update-fonts-scale.8,xdm.options.5,xfs.options.5,xvfb-run.1}: update
manpage reference to reflect change from patch #077 (see above)
[...]
* debian/local/update-fonts-alias: only start writing new alias file if
there are any aliases to process (thanks, Ian Zimmerman) (Closes: #144780)
-- Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org> Tue, 20 Aug 2002 11:40:39 -0500
However, none of these are changes to the way the commands are invoked,
and none of them change the expected behavior. Thus, in my opinion, the
Policy Manual doesn't need to be updated.
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