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Re: Some unblock requests, again



On 2008-11-18 21:51 +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote:

> Le mardi 18 novembre 2008 à 20:01 +0100, Sven Joachim a écrit :
>> Apart from /etc/fonts/conf.avail/70-yes-bitmaps.conf and the new symlink
>> in /etc/fonts/conf.d to it there seems to be no difference.
>
> Indeed; which means the configuration should be exactly the same.
>
> Apparently this is caused by the missing cache for bitmap fonts after
> running dpkg-reconfigure. So this means we need to re-run fc-cache -fs
> after a reconfigure in fontconfig-config - a bug that was already here
> before that change.

Correct, after "fc-cache -fs" the bitmap fonts are there again. :-)

> Unfortunately I don’t know of a means to reliably detect whether we’re
> reconfiguring. Maybe by checking if fontconfig is in "installed" state,
> but I feel this would be hackish.

Maybe a dpkg trigger in the fontconfig package could be used?  This has
already been suggested in #498948.

Cheers,
       Sven


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