[Debian-hebrew-common] Culmus & Culmus-fancy font location

[Lior Kaplan]

Baruch Even wrote:
> Lior Kaplan wrote:
> 
>>Hi,
>>
>>I reviewed this bugs from Ubuntu:
>>http://bugzilla.ubuntu.com/show_bug.cgi?id=17941
>>
>>Which says our Culmus packages put the fonts in the wrong location.
>>/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1 instead of /usr/share/X11/fonts/Type1.
>>
>>I've check what /etc/X11/xorg.conf has to say and saw
>>FontPath        "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Type1"
>>while culmus install files at /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/
> 
> 
>>From policy 11.8.5,
> 4.   Type 1 fonts must be placed in `/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/'.
>      If font metric files are available, they must be placed here as
>      well.
> 
> so we work according to policy.
> 
> /usr/lib/X11 is a symlink to /usr/X11R6/lib/X11 so we are ok here.
> Probably Ubuntu didn't something wrong with this stuff.
> 
> I say we have no problem and we should not worry about it until Debian's
> policy changes.

We may do the change to "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Type1", and kill two birds
with one stone. Debian is fine, since with follow the policy (using the
symlink). And Ubuntu will be out of the box.

What do you think ?

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Lior Kaplan
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