[Debian GNUstep maintainers] Bug#542334: Bug#542334: gnustep-back-common: please remove dependency on defoma

[Paul Wise]

On Wed, 2009-08-19 at 13:13 +0300, Yavor Doganov wrote:

> retitle 454446 ITA: mknfonts.tool -- Create nfont packages for GNUstep
> owner 454446 Debian GNUstep maintainers <pkg-gnustep-maintainers at lists.alioth.debian.org>
> thanks

Uhm, perhaps you meant to clone the bug too, since gnustep-back still
needs to switch to using fontconfig?

> Thanks very much.  This will work, we just need to depend on
> mknfonts.tool and populate /usr/share/GNUstep/Fonts at postinst.  There
> are a few issues, though:

I'm not sure it is appropriate to put generated stuff in /usr/share (FHS
and all), I suggest you use somewhere in /var/ for that.

>       * The trickiest part seems to be how to craft the trigger.  It
>         needs to be run after fontconfig's trigger when the fc-cache is
>         updated.  I have no idea how to solve this.

That does sound tricky, not sure how to approach that, other than
getting the libart backend to use libfontconfig instead of using fc-list
in the maintainer scripts.

> One more question, from your initial message:
> 
> > Please be sure to change your maintainer scripts so that they remove 
> > the files created by your defoma backend when upgrading to the new 
> > version.
> > You can do this with the following command:
> >
> > /usr/bin/defoma-app purge <package>
> 
> This means that gnustep-back-common should still depend on defoma and
> run the above in its postinst at least until squeeze+1, right?  Is there
> a document (wiki page or whatever) describing the Defoma removal goal
> distribution-wide?

Here is the wiki page:

http://wiki.debian.org/OldPkgRemovals

IMO you can just check if defoma-app is available and purge if it is,
preventing the need for defoma to stick around in squeeze.

-- 
bye,
pabs

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