Bug#185211: xutils: update-fonts-scale: No way to invoke to not ignore directories outside of /etc/X11/fonts, e.g., for AbiWord
Package: xutils
Version: 4.1.0-16
Severity: important
I am attempting to do the correct action with AbiWord. Since AbiWord
needs all sorts of font crap done to it (which is a mess), I started
out to do it all. Unfortunately, it says "edit fonts.scale and
fonts.dir by hand for every directory and font ...", and there is NO
WAY I AM GOING TO DO THAT for thousands of fonts I don't even know if
I'm going to use all of; to fix that, it has to be automated. This is
a whole bunch of symlinks underneath /usr/share/AbiSuite/fonts. This
problem should be fixed in AbiWord, and in Debian's configuration of
AbiWord, but in the meanwhile, there is purpose to use
update-fonts-scale to update all those fonts.scale files that
mkfontdir doesn't know how to deal with. The arbitrary refusal of
update-fonts-scale is obscene in this case, and not having an override
option is abysmal.
-- System Information
Debian Release: 3.0
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux O.Q.NET 2.4.20 #2 Fri Mar 7 17:07:21 CST 2003 i686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C
Versions of packages xutils depends on:
ii libc6 2.2.5-11.2 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libncurses5 5.2.20020112a-7 Shared libraries for terminal hand
ii xfree86-common 4.1.0-16 X Window System (XFree86) infrastr
ii zlib1g 1:1.1.4-1 compression library - runtime
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