Bug#366994: xfonts-encodings: Absolute_path patch makes it out of work

[David Nusinow <david_nusinow@verizon.net>]

Hi Hongzheng,

On Sat, May 13, 2006 at 01:37:55AM +0800, Hongzheng Wang wrote:
> Subject: xfonts-encodings: Absolute_path patch makes it out of work
> Package: xfonts-encodings
> Version: 1:1.0.0-2
> Severity: important
> 
> Hi David,
> 
> Recently, several bug reports have been composed for the problem of
> incorrect encodings file locating function, including 362722, 366097
> and 366098.  The bug that X11 encoding cannot find encodings file is,
> originally, due to the incorrect encoding-path in rules file of
> package libfontenc1.  Fortunately, the wrong encoding path has been
> fixed in the latest version of package libfontenc1, say, 1.0.1-6.
> 
> But the upgrade of package xfonts-encodings results in a simliar bug
> again.  It seems that the absolute_path patch may not work, since it
> makes X11 applications cannot find a proper encodings file even when
> libfontenc1 does provide a right encoding-path.
> 
> I have to downgrade xfonts-encodings from 1.0.0-3 to 1.0.0-2 to solve
> this problem.

Could you please try the xfonts-encodings package at
http://people.debian.org/~dnusinow/xfonts-encodings_1.0.0-4_all.deb and let
me know if it's still broken? Thanks!

 - David Nusinow