[Pkg-fonts-devel] Bug#452127: ttf-dejavu-extra: dangling font links are harmful.

[Davide Viti]

Hi
> 
> Apparently, we get:
> 
> grep: gs.d/dirs/fonts/DejaVuSerifCondensed-BoldOblique.ttf: No such file
> or directory
> grep: gs.d/dirs/fonts/DejaVuSerifCondensed-Oblique.ttf: No such file or
> directory
> grep: gs.d/dirs/fonts/DejaVuSerif-BoldOblique.ttf: No such file or
> directory
> grep: gs.d/dirs/fonts/DejaVuSerif-Oblique.ttf: No such file or directory
> grep:
> x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType/DejaVuSerifCondensed-BoldOblique.ttf:
> No such file or directory
> grep: x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType/DejaVuSerifCondensed-Oblique.ttf:
> No such file or directory
> grep: x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType/DejaVuSerif-BoldOblique.ttf: No
> such file or directory
> grep: x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType/DejaVuSerif-Oblique.ttf: No such
> file or directory
> 
> And that cause x-ttcidfont-conf stop doing its job to link xfonts to 
> ttf fonts. Causes bug 437674 419052 .
> 
> Apparently, it's a leftover from the bug 440142. 
> 
> Please somehow remove old dangling symlinks when upgrade.
> 

I can definitely see the wrong symlinks on my machine which need to be
removed; not sure this problem is the same reported originally in this BR though.
I'm still trying to understand a bit more what's going on; I'll eventually
duplicate this problem in a separate bugreport.

regards,
Davide
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