Re: xfonts-base.alias with 8859-15 encodings

[Bill Moseley <moseley@hank.org>]

On Wed, Mar 10, 2004 at 05:40:46PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 10, 2004 at 07:24:02AM -0800, Bill Moseley wrote:
> > I've posted three times on debian-user about this without any response 
> > yet, so I hope someone here can give some advice.
> 

Hi Branden,

Thanks for responding.

> Sounds like you made local modifications to the conffile
> /etc/X11/fonts/misc/xfonts-base.alias, and dpkg was preserving them.

dpkg will "preserve" a removed file?  I had not made any local 
modifications to that file.

All the alias files have the same date and time (except for the new
version I copied from the extracted xfonts-base package):

moseley@bumby:/etc/X11/fonts/misc$ ls -l *.alias
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root         1322 2003-11-07 11:32 xfonts-artwiz.alias
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root         5737 2004-03-10 07:15 xfonts-base.alias
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root          533 2003-11-07 11:32 xfonts-base-transcoded.alias
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root         5272 2003-11-07 11:32 xfonts-bolkhov-cp1251-misc.alias
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root         8422 2003-11-07 11:32 xfonts-terminus.alias
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root         1363 2003-11-07 11:32 xtel.alias

I'm now just wondering how xfonts-base.alias ended up with iso8859-15
instead of 8859-1.  I'm also not sure that the update yesterday is what 
broke things, as I may have had the server running continuously for
more than one sid update -- perhaps a month (or longer).

Was there a time where xfonts-base.alias had 8859-15 in it?  Doesn't 
seem likely.


moseley@bumby:/etc/X11/fonts/misc$ head !$ head xfonts-base.alias.old
! $Xorg: fonts.alias,v 1.3 2000/08/21 16:42:31 coskrey Exp $
fixed        -misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--13-120-75-75-c-60-iso8859-15
variable     -*-helvetica-bold-r-normal-*-*-120-*-*-*-*-iso8859-15
5x7          -misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--7-70-75-75-c-50-iso8859-15
5x8          -misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--8-80-75-75-c-50-iso8859-15
6x9          -misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--9-90-75-75-c-60-iso8859-15
6x10         -misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--10-100-75-75-c-60-iso8859-15
6x12         -misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--12-110-75-75-c-60-iso8859-15
6x13         -misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--13-120-75-75-c-60-iso8859-15
6x13bold     -misc-fixed-bold-r-semicondensed--13-120-75-75-c-60-iso8859-15

At this point things are working and I'm just curious what happened.


-- 
Bill Moseley
moseley@hank.org