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

[Baruch Even]

Lior Kaplan wrote:
> 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 ?

SI just said that his fix (move directories) doesn't work in later
Ubuntu, so we wont do anything helpful. I say no. It works that way and
I'd rather not break it. Ubuntu should not break away from the standard
that Debian uses.

Baruch