[Debian-hebrew-package] Bug#431681: Bug#431681: piuparts test: fails to install: ln: creating symbolic link `/etc/fonts/conf.d/65-culmus.conf' to `../conf.avail/65-culmus.conf': No such file or directory

[Lior Kaplan]

Michael Ablassmeier wrote:
> while running archive wide piuparts tests your package failed on install with
> the following error: 
> 
>   Unpacking culmus (from .../culmus_0.101-7_all.deb) ...
>   ln: creating symbolic link `/etc/fonts/conf.d/65-culmus.conf' to `../conf.avail/65-culmus.conf': No such file or directory
>   dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/culmus_0.101-7_all.deb (--unpack):
>    subprocess pre-installation script returned error exit status 1

We have several solutions for this:
1. Depend on fontconfig-config, which will create /etc/fonts/conf.d/
2. supply the link as part of the package (instead of handling it in the 
maintainer scripts). This two will result in the creation of 
/etc/fonts/conf.d/.

I think #2 is the better one, as #1 will make culmus drag in some other 
fonts as dependencies.

Your thoughts?

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Lior Kaplan
kaplan at debian.org

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