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Bug#868496: debian-policy: Please Clarify Need for update-fonts-dir in postinst and postrm Scripts



Hello Paul,

On Sun, Jul 16, 2017 at 04:28:03PM -0700, Paul Hardy wrote:
> My intention was to point someone new to packaging fonts in Debian in
> the direction of an easy path, rather than leaving it up to that
> person to find things out the hard way--or worse yet, doing things the
> hard way.

Right.  It would be good to have that somewhere ...

> How about a footnote pointing to
> https://wiki.debian.org/Fonts/PackagingPolicy?  That document is not
> formal policy, but it would make life easier for someone if they are
> new to packaging fonts.
> 
> Alternatively, do you think this bug report should get reassigned to
> the New Maintainer's Guide and be addressed as a request there?  The
> scope of that guide is mainly to walk someone through creating a
> simple binary package.

... and the new maintainer's guide seems like a decent place.

How about adding a section to that guide listing links to packaging
guides for specific types of packages, such as fonts?

-- 
Sean Whitton

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