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Bug#1029168: fonts-urw-base35: Apache pdfbox cannot load fonts. Complains "Start marker missing"



Hi,

Am Donnerstag, dem 19.01.2023 um 13:57 -0500 schrieb Jorge Moraleda:
> Fabian mentioned that "upstream has decided to rename the binary font
> files and in that course change the file extensions from .pfb to
> .t1." but from the above experiment it seems that upstream changed
> the actual file format, and then they changed the file extensions to
> match the new format.

to be honest, I wasn't even aware of the format change until yesterday.

> IMHO opinion, the solution would be to either not create the symbolic
> links or to preserve the original names including the extension. I
> don't know enough to know what is best.

The symlinks were introduced to facilitate the transition from the
gsfonts package, which had its fonts installed in these directories
with these exact file names. Maybe it makes sense to remove them again
immediately after the next Debian stable release to prevent subtle bugs
like this. @roland what do you think?

 - Fabian

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