Bug#362894: x11-common: font system completely f***ed up: fixed font not found

[Norbert Preining <preining@logic.at>]

Package: x11-common
Version: 1:7.0.12
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable

Hi X maintainers!

It seems that the font organization is completely crazy now:
- X cannot find the fixed font anymore:
  The fixed enty in fonts.alias in /usr/share/fonts/X11/misc is not 
  included in the fonts.dir file
- there are still two different hierachies: Up to now the xorg.conf
  files contain as fontpath /usr/lib/X11/fonts ...
  But /usr/lib/X11/fonts -> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts but the later
  is DIFFERENT from /usr/share/fonts/X11/...
  so in effect the fonts in /usr/share/fonts/X11 are not included in
  the font path at all.
- there are no man pages how to update the font system: mkfontdir which
  has been used till now is nothing else the mkfontscale script.

All this is grave because one cannot start the X server, and even
playing around with /usr/share/fonts/X11/misc and mkfontdir didn't fix
the situation (the script could give a warning message that now you
should use update-what-the-hell). After adding the fonts.scale by hand
and adding it to the fonts.dir still now work, because of the above
fonts path hierachy mismatch. What a grat disaster, to be honest!

Forthermore, please include documentation, write up some transition
document, it is NOT up to the user to find out everything by themselves.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (10, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.17-rc1-mm2
Locale: LANG=de_AT@euro, LC_CTYPE=de_AT@euro (charmap=ISO-8859-15)

Versions of packages x11-common depends on:
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]         1.4.72     Debian configuration management sy
ii  debianutils                   2.15.5     Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii  laptop-detect                 0.12.1     attempt to detect a laptop
ii  lsb-base                      3.1-3      Linux Standard Base 3.1 init scrip

x11-common recommends no packages.

-- debconf information:
  x11-common/xwrapper/allowed_users: Anybody
  x11-common/experimental_packages:
  x11-common/xwrapper/actual_allowed_users: anybody
  x11-common/xwrapper/nice_value/error:
  x11-common/xwrapper/nice_value: -10