Bug#706114: xfonts-utils: insufficient zlib1g dependency

[Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>]

On Thu, 2013-04-25 at 14:51:29 +0200, Andreas Beckmann wrote:
> On 2013-04-25 10:39, Guillem Jover wrote:
> > I guess the correct solution though, is to change update-fonts-* and
> > any other script in xfonts-utils calling mkfont* from other maintainer
> > scripts, to only run if xfonts-utils itself is configured or being
> > configured, and calling these through xfonts-utils maintainer scripts
> > too, so that if xfonts-utils and something else using it like gsfonts-x11
> > are both unpacked on the same run, the actual update-fonts-* executions
> > will be delayed until xfonts-utils is itself configured, at which point
> > the scripts should be able to run. I don't think this would be much
> > more difficult to prepare.
> 
> Sounds like a job for triggers (but there is currently a dpkg bug that
> causes it to run triggers for packages that are not configured (or their
> dependencies are not)

Right, sorry, I didn't mention triggers exactly for that reason.
Although this one should be easier to switch during jessie, as these
packages do not need to await processing from xfonts-utils, which
should avoid the cycles that enable that bug.

Thanks,
Guillem