Bug#695260: After upgrade from Lenny to Squeeze is no possible to configure lmodern.

[Norbert Preining <preining@logic.at>]

severity 695260 normal
tags 695260 + moreinfo unreproducible
thanks

Hi,

On Do, 06 Dez 2012, Ezio Da Rin wrote:
> 1 non completamente installati o rimossi.
> Dopo quest'operazione, verranno occupati 0 B di spazio su disco.
> Configurazione di lmodern (2.004.1-3)...
> /etc/defoma/hints/lmodern.hints: Unable to open, or empty.

The question is, what did *LEAD* up to this situation.

This is a config file that is removed via dpkg-maintscript-helper,
so when you *FIRST* installted the new version of lmodern, it should
have removed the hints file *ONLY* if the installation
was successful, and if something broke, should rewind.

Now, you did NOT show us what has happened during the real installation
of lmodern from wheezy, only the
	apt-get -f install
run, which is too late.

So my questions:
* did you remove /etc/defoma/hints/lmodern.hints yourself?
* what did happen when lmodenr was updated?
  (not when you tried to fix the installation, that was later!)

I have tried several upgrade paths and have never seen this behaviour.

Best wishes

Norbert
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