This was uploaded to lunar after a brief IRC conversation:
https://irclogs.ubuntu.com/2023/02/23/%23ubuntu-desktop.html#t14:18
** Changed in: fontconfig (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Fix Committed
** Changed in: fontconfig (Ubuntu)
Assignee: (unassigned) => Gunnar Hjalmarsson (gunnarhj)
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/2007124
Title:
Move available config files from /etc to /usr
Status in fontconfig package in Ubuntu:
Fix Committed
Bug description:
At the upgrade to fontconfig 2.10 a decade ago, the directory for
storing available config files was changed from /etc/fonts/conf.avail
to /usr/share/fontconfig/conf.avail. It was done upstream as well as
in Debian, but Ubuntu delayed the transition for some reason. I think
we should do that transition in Ubuntu too. That will get Ubuntu in
sync with the upstream documentation and the delta to Debian gets
reduced a little.
The changes needed are straightforward. I put a proposed upload in
this PPA:
https://launchpad.net/~gunnarhj/+archive/ubuntu/fontconfig
and I would appreciate someone's eyes on it.
So, what's the caveat? The only thing I can think of is that distros,
system admins and individual users may have tweaked the font
configuration by including symlinks which point to the moved files.
While I don't have the impression that such symlinks are very frequent
— custom conf files put directly in /etc/fonts/conf.d or equivalent
places in $HOME seem to be more common — to the extent they exist,
they will be silently disabled.
Bug #2005124 revealed an example of a symlink which pointed to a file
which will be moved if we do this. OTOH, in that case upstream added a
symlink with the very same name, so we had to deal with that conflict.
If the name of Kubuntu's link had been something else, we might not be
aware of it yet.
The changelog for this upload:
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/fontconfig/2.10.1-0ubuntu1
states that the transition will be done "later with another upload
once the details are sorted". Are there other details which I have
missed? If not, I suppose that the potential inconvenience is
approximately as big today as it was 2012. And since next LTS release
is more than one year ahead, this ought to be an appropriate time to
make the change.
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