Bug#932897: libgs9-common: Require fonts-urw-base35 and get rid of font duplication that way

[Julian Wollrath]

Package: libgs9-common
Version: 9.27~dfsg-2
Severity: minor

Dear Maintainer,

libgs9-common provides the base 35 fonts in
/usr/share/ghostscript/9.27/Resource/Font/ while these fonts are also
packaged in fonts-urw-base-35. So it would make sense to depend on
fonts-urw-base35 instead and replace the fonts in
/usr/share/ghostscript/9.27/Resource/Font/ with symlinks to the fonts
from fonts-urw-base35, e.g.: replace
/usr/share/ghostscript/9.27/Resource/Font/C059-BdIta by a link
to /usr/share/fonts/type1/urw-base35/C059-BdIta.t1


With best regards,
Julian Wollrath


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Kernel: Linux 5.2.2 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
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libgs9-common depends on no packages.

Versions of packages libgs9-common recommends:
ii  fonts-droid-fallback  1:6.0.1r16-1.1

libgs9-common suggests no packages.

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Bug#932897: libgs9-common: Require fonts-urw-base35 and get rid of font duplication that way

[Jonas Smedegaard]

Hi Julian,

Quoting Julian Wollrath (2019-07-24 09:55:14)
> libgs9-common provides the base 35 fonts in
> /usr/share/ghostscript/9.27/Resource/Font/ while these fonts are also
> packaged in fonts-urw-base-35. So it would make sense to depend on
> fonts-urw-base35 instead and replace the fonts in
> /usr/share/ghostscript/9.27/Resource/Font/ with symlinks to the fonts
> from fonts-urw-base35, e.g.: replace
> /usr/share/ghostscript/9.27/Resource/Font/C059-BdIta by a link
> to /usr/share/fonts/type1/urw-base35/C059-BdIta.t1

Thaks for the reminder: This issue is already tracked as ancient 
bug#613912 but I appreciate your bringing it up again (and no problem 
that you missed that earlier bugreport).

Looking into fixing this now, while waiting for my laundry to finish 
here at Debconf in Critiba, Brazil... :-)


 - Jonas

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