Re: Problem with the "updmap scheme" when a font package is in an "inconsistent state"
Florent Rougon <f.rougon@free.fr> wrote:
> Frank Küster <frank@debian.org> wrote:
>
>> Hm, what is the output if lmodern (or foo) is upgraded, and the new
>> version is not yet configured (but the old one is)? How will this be
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> ?
> This is impossible. When the new version is unpacked, the _package_ is
> not in a configured state anymore.
But it wasn't clear what the output of dpkg-query and/or grep-status
would be in that case.
> Does the following help?
Yes, thanks.
> It seems there are two "reliable" ways left to solve the problem:
> .dpkg-new checking (fast, but slightly ugly) and dpkg-query (slow, but
> cleaner at first sight).
Compared to an updmap run it's not very slow.
Regards, Frank
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Frank Küster
Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer (teTeX)
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