Bug#455999: xfonts-encodings: X11R6 symlinks still needed by x-ttcidfont-conf

[Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>]

reassign 455999 x-ttcidfont-conf
kthxbye

On Wed, Dec 12, 2007 at 21:01:58 +0000, Reuben Thomas wrote:

> Package: xfonts-encodings
> Version: 1:1.0.2-3
> Severity: normal
> 
> Recently trying to work out why defoma was complaining about a missing
> directory, I found out that x-ttcidfont-conf, in its script
> 
> /usr/share/defoma/scripts/x-ttcidfont-conf.defoma
> 
> still has hardwired references to
> 
>           /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/encodings
>           /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/encodings/large
> 
> and in its Debian changelog says:
> 
>       In order to maintain compatibility with X11R6, revert to the old
>       /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/encodings path, for which xfonts-encodings
>       ships a compatibility symlink in X.org 7. For this, depend on the
>       required version of xfonts-encodings (see #369510), or a pre-Xorg7
>       xfonts-base.
> 
> (for version 23 of x-ttcidfont-conf).
> 
> Hence, it seems as if for the moment that symlink is still needed:
> certainly, for me, symlinking /usr/share/fonts/X11 to
> /usr/lib/X11/fonts cures the error message.
> 
> I'm not sure whose bug this is, I thought I'd file it here first since
> the assumption that the symlink is no longer needed seems to be false,
> and there seems to be a continued effort to be compatible with X11R6
> for now.
> 
There was an effort to make upgrades from sarge to etch work.  I don't
think we need to keep that legacy code around longer.

Cheers,
Julien