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 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]