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On Montag, 28. April 2003 16:18, Daniel Stone wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 28, 2003 at 04:07:17PM +0200, Ralf Nolden wrote:
> > while trying to figure out why the heck I sometimes have a problem with
> > konsole on some machines and not on other machines I found out the
> > following issue: xfonts-* packages have a call for
> >
> > update-fonts-dir update-fonts-alias
> >
> > in their postinst/postrm
> >
> > so those probably need to be added to the xfonts-konsole package too in
> > their respective postinst/postrm. Further, xfonts-konsole packages:
> >
> >
> > /usr/share/fonts/9x15.pcf.gz
> > /usr/share/fonts/console8x16.pcf.gz
> > /usr/share/fonts/console8x8.pcf.gz
> > /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/console8x8.pcf.gz
> > /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/console8x16.pcf.gz
> >
> > which means that 9x15.pcf.gz is missing in
> > /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/.
> >
> > Also the question is why they get installed in /usr/share/fonts instead
> > of /usr/share/fonts/misc.
> >
> > Chris, Daniel, do you know anything about that ? I would very much like
> > to bring this into a usable state so people don't run into the same
> > problems over and over again. A postinst/postrm scheme for processing the
> > update-fonts commands can be found in the respective xfree86 packages, so
> > it is kind of easy to add that to kdebase in CVS for KDE_3_1_BRANCH and
> > HEAD.
>
> I could believe that, yeah. Looks like:
> * They need to go in /usr/share/fonts/misc, or
> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc.

They are currently, for whatever reason, installed in both except 9x15.pcf.gz. 
Where do they have to go to now ? I'd propose /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc 
because that's where they belong to. 

 * postinst/postrm *DEFINITELY* needs to call
> update-fonts-*!

Should we copy + paste this from your xf4.3/debian/xfonts-base.postinst/postrm 
? I'm on IRC if you want to do this now :-)

Ralf

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