[Debian-hebrew-package] r620 - in /pkg/culmus/trunk/debian: changelog culmus.preinst culmus.prerm dirs rules

[Lior Kaplan]

Baruch Even wrote:
> The purpose of this symlink is that if a user doesn't want our 
> configuration file he can remove the symlink and forget about it 
> forever. He can obviously recreate it but we will not recreate it anymore.
> 
> Is your change compatible with this logic?
> 
> I believe not, though I'm not certain. As far as I know a conf file that 
> is missing might be recreated. Consider also a user of the former 
> versions of the package who removed the symlink, he will now have the 
> symlink back.
> 
> The message you sent to the bug made me think you intend to create the 
> directory only for the symlink. Not the actual symlink in the package.

You're right, but I followed the working of fontconfig-config which did 
the same.

I guess the status of this won't change until they'll create some helper 
script (update-fontconfig ?).

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Lior Kaplan
kaplan at debian.org

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