Hi, On Tue, Jul 03, 2007 at 12:00:06AM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > > I suspect the source of this bug is the fact that fontconfig is > unpackaged but not yet configured when ttf-dejavu is configured by > dpkg. I suspect this must be fixed either in fontconfig, making sure > it isn't hooking into defoma before it is configured, or in defoma, by > letting it depend or recommend the fontconfig package to make sure > fontconfig is configured before defoma, and thus before all fonts > depending on defoma. > > We ran into this bug in Debian Edu in Etch, giving us false positives > when checking the installation for errors. See > <URL:http://bugs.skolelinux.no/show_bug.cgi?id=1198> for our bug > report.
I spent some time trying to reproduce the problem in a chroot: I've created a bare minimal sarge chroot, dist-upgraded to etch and tried some combinations of apt-get/dpkg in order to install/remove ttf-dejavu and fontconfig but with no success. As suggested on IRC, the problem apparently arises when dealing with a large number of packages; I've reproduced the problem running the following in the etch chroot apt-get install xorg gnome note that installing xorg alone or gnome alone does not trigger the problem. regards, Davide
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