On Wed, Mar 10, 2004 at 08:27:44PM -0800, Bill Moseley wrote: > 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? Yes. To restore it you'll need to use dpkg --install --force-confmiss, though, not --force-confnew. > 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. There may have been a bug along these lines at some point, but I confess I can't turn up anything obvious in quick grepping of the package changelog. -- G. Branden Robinson | Debian GNU/Linux | Music is the brandy of the damned. branden@debian.org | -- George Bernard Shaw http://people.debian.org/~branden/ |
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