Package: libpdf-api2-perl
Version: 0.66-1
Severity: serious
Hi,
Today my PDF::API2-using application started to die due to missing
fonts. Looking closer, it appeared that /usr/share/perl5/PDF/API2/fonts/
is an empty directory, instead of a symlink to
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-dejavu.
The package does not ship DejaVu fonts since version 0.66-1, replacing
fonts/ directory with a symlink. However, when upgrading, dpkg won't
replace directories with symlinks, leaving an empty fonts/ directory.
This would break applications that were running fine on Etch.
Quoting Policy ยง6.6.4:
A directory will never be replaced by a symbolic link to a directory
or vice versa; instead, the existing state (symlink or not) will be
left alone and dpkg will follow the symlink if there is one.
To fix this, .postinst should be added, detecting an empty fonts/
directory and replacing it with a symlink. It would be nice if .prerm
detects downgrades to versions << 0.66-1 and replaces back the symlink
with an empty directory.
See also http://bugs.debian.org/468111
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers oldstable
APT policy: (500, 'oldstable'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500,
'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.24-1-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=bg_BG.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=bg_BG.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages libpdf-api2-perl depends on:
ii libcompress-zlib-perl 2.008-2 Perl module for creation and manip
ii perl 5.8.8-12 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction
ii ttf-dejavu 2.24-2 Metapackage to pull in ttf-dejavu-
libpdf-api2-perl recommends no packages.
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