[Mageia-dev] bogus packages that provides fonts-ttf-dejavu

Wed Mar 13 10:25:03 CET 2013

'Twas brillig, and Thierry Vignaud at 12/03/13 21:33 did gyre and gimble:
+> Hi
+> 
+> As seen in bug #8820 (https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8820),
+> some packages bogusly package DejaVu fonts instead of requiring
+> fonts-ttf-dejavu.
+> This makes them bogusly provide 'font(XX)' (eg: 'font(fr)' which breaks urpmi
+> since perl-URPM will only show arched packages when there's both arched &
+> nonarch packages providing the same provides
+> 
+> $ urpmf DejaVuSans.ttf|grep -v fonts-ttf|sed -e 's!:.*!!'|sort -u
+...
+> None of those should do this.
+> All these packages should be fixed to require fonts-ttf-dejavu instead
+> of  packaging.
+
+
+I wonder if these packages will break if they simply remove the fonts.
+Perhaps the packaging should be such that they symlink the fonts to the
+folder they expect them to be in also?
+
+Or perhaps, alternatively, whatever is responsible for the automatic
+font(XX) provides should only look at files in /usr/share/fonts/ and not
+in any other folders. That would presumably also solve the problem
+(assuming the packages listed are just rebuilt.
+
+Col
+
+
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