[Pkg-fonts-devel] Bug#689575: fonts-liberation: breaks applications relying on the ttf-liberation name

Fabian Greffrath fabian at greffrath.com
Thu Oct 4 08:24:13 UTC 2012


Am 04.10.2012 09:51, schrieb Helmut Grohne:
> The fonts-liberation package provides the ttf-liberation package, but
> does not ship a compatibility symlink for
> /usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-liberation.

Indeed, it is wrong for fonts-liberation to "Provides: ttf-liberation" 
without actually providing the expected files.

Whose idea was that? ;)

> Of course the calibre maintainer should fix their part (#674838) as
> well, but they have not yet done so despite the presence of a patch.

Yes, this needs to be fixed ASAP, but we have to fix our package as well.

Thanks,
  - Fabian



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