Re: unnecessary X fonts directory remains ?

[Atsuhito Kohda <kohda@pm.tokushima-u.ac.jp>]

From: Branden Robinson <branden@ecn.purdue.edu>
Subject: Re: unnecessary X fonts directory remains ?
Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2000 03:55:18 -0500

> [Please be careful with follow-ups to the lists.]

Only to devel because I do not know any technical issue ;)

> There is currently a big X font policy proposal under discussion in
> debian-policy.  I need to amend it to address the issue you raise.

I am very happy if I could be of any help for you.

> In the meantime, one of xfonts-intl-chinese's maintainer scripts (preinst
> seems like a good candidate), should go hunting for its old directory and
> remove it and its contents.  As long as nothing else ever used that
> directory, this is a risk-free operation.
> 
> if [ -d /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/chinese ]; then
>   rm -r /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/chinese
> fi
> 
> (I know rm -rf is simpler, but rm -rf plus a typo can cause you a heart
> attack; the above at least saves you if your typo target exists and is not a
> directory.)

How instructive !!!

From: Julian Gilbey <J.D.Gilbey@qmw.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: unnecessary X fonts directory remains ?
Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2000 13:10:45 +0000

> This is a bug report, so forwarding to the BTS....

Thank you and please note that there might be other packages,
especially xfonts-intl-*, which have the same kind of bug.

Thanks a lot,			2000.1.14

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 Debian JP Developer - much more I18N of Debian
 Atsuhito Kohda <kohda@pm.tokushima-u.ac.jp>
 Department of Math., Tokushima Univ.