[Bug 819106] Re: msttcorefonts fails to install because of bad fontconfig interaction

[Michael Vogt]

msttcorefonts (3.3ubuntu4) oneiric; urgency=low

  * Create /usr/share/fonts/truetype/msttcorefonts in the postinst
    instead of packaging it to work around a bad interaction with
    fontconfig's postinst: see Ubuntu bug 819097. (LP: #670629)

Date: Sun, 31 Jul 2011 22:43:26 -0400
Changed-By: Geoffrey Thomas <geofft at mit.edu>
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers <ubuntu-devel-discuss at lists.ubuntu.com>
Signed-By: Michael Vogt <michael.vogt at ubuntu.com>
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/oneiric/+source/msttcorefonts/3.3ubuntu4


** Changed in: msttcorefonts (Ubuntu)
       Status: Triaged => Fix Released

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Title:
  msttcorefonts fails to install because of bad fontconfig interaction

Status in “msttcorefonts” package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  Per the following bug
  http://bugs.debian.org/636173
  https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/819097

  fontconfig's postinst likes to delete empty directories in
  /usr/share/fonts. Unfortunately, msttcorefonts packages an empty
  directory, /usr/share/fonts/truetype/msttcorefonts, and depends on its
  existence in its own postinst. Therefore, if you install these two
  packages in the same install run, msttcorefonts' postinst fails.

  I've attached a debdiff to create this directory in the postinst
  instead of packaging it in debian/dirs.

  This is a re-filing of my comment at the bottom of
  https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/670629
  I can't seem to reopen a "Fix released" bug, and it seemed better to open a new bug anyway. See that bug for some more context.

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