@Steve: fonts-guru-extra affects everyone, since fonts-guru is in desktop-common in Xenial, and thus is indeed the most important package to fix.
OTOH, the issue is present for all the above packages for those affected. Will try to fix them using the same method as you did for fonts-guru-extra. ** Also affects: fonts-beng-extra (Ubuntu Bionic) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Also affects: fonts-deva-extra (Ubuntu Bionic) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Also affects: fonts-gujr-extra (Ubuntu Bionic) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Also affects: fonts-guru-extra (Ubuntu Bionic) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Also affects: fonts-orya-extra (Ubuntu Bionic) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Changed in: fonts-guru-extra (Ubuntu Bionic) Importance: Undecided => High ** Changed in: fonts-guru-extra (Ubuntu Bionic) Status: New => Triaged ** Changed in: fonts-guru-extra (Ubuntu Bionic) Assignee: (unassigned) => Steve Langasek (vorlon) ** Changed in: fonts-beng-extra (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided => Medium ** Changed in: fonts-beng-extra (Ubuntu) Status: New => Triaged ** Changed in: fonts-beng-extra (Ubuntu) Assignee: (unassigned) => Gunnar Hjalmarsson (gunnarhj) ** Changed in: fonts-beng-extra (Ubuntu Bionic) Importance: Undecided => Medium ** Changed in: fonts-beng-extra (Ubuntu Bionic) Status: New => Triaged ** Changed in: fonts-beng-extra (Ubuntu Bionic) Assignee: (unassigned) => Gunnar Hjalmarsson (gunnarhj) ** Changed in: fonts-deva-extra (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided => Medium ** Changed in: fonts-deva-extra (Ubuntu) Status: New => Triaged ** Changed in: fonts-deva-extra (Ubuntu) Assignee: (unassigned) => Gunnar Hjalmarsson (gunnarhj) ** Changed in: fonts-deva-extra (Ubuntu Bionic) Importance: Undecided => Medium ** Changed in: fonts-deva-extra (Ubuntu Bionic) Status: New => Triaged ** Changed in: fonts-deva-extra (Ubuntu Bionic) Assignee: (unassigned) => Gunnar Hjalmarsson (gunnarhj) ** Changed in: fonts-gujr-extra (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided => Medium ** Changed in: fonts-gujr-extra (Ubuntu) Status: New => Triaged ** Changed in: fonts-gujr-extra (Ubuntu) Assignee: (unassigned) => Gunnar Hjalmarsson (gunnarhj) ** Changed in: fonts-gujr-extra (Ubuntu Bionic) Importance: Undecided => Medium ** Changed in: fonts-gujr-extra (Ubuntu Bionic) Status: New => Triaged ** Changed in: fonts-gujr-extra (Ubuntu Bionic) Assignee: (unassigned) => Gunnar Hjalmarsson (gunnarhj) ** Changed in: fonts-orya-extra (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided => Medium ** Changed in: fonts-orya-extra (Ubuntu) Status: New => Triaged ** Changed in: fonts-orya-extra (Ubuntu) Assignee: (unassigned) => Gunnar Hjalmarsson (gunnarhj) ** Changed in: fonts-orya-extra (Ubuntu Bionic) Importance: Undecided => Medium ** Changed in: fonts-orya-extra (Ubuntu Bionic) Status: New => Triaged ** Changed in: fonts-orya-extra (Ubuntu Bionic) Assignee: (unassigned) => Gunnar Hjalmarsson (gunnarhj) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Documentation Packages, which is subscribed to fonts-deva-extra in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1701047 Title: Renaming of conf file fails Status in fonts-beng-extra package in Ubuntu: Triaged Status in fonts-deva-extra package in Ubuntu: Triaged Status in fonts-gujr-extra package in Ubuntu: Triaged Status in fonts-guru-extra package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Status in fonts-orya-extra package in Ubuntu: Triaged Status in fonts-beng-extra source package in Bionic: Triaged Status in fonts-deva-extra source package in Bionic: Triaged Status in fonts-gujr-extra source package in Bionic: Triaged Status in fonts-guru-extra source package in Bionic: Triaged Status in fonts-orya-extra source package in Bionic: Triaged Status in fonts-beng-extra package in Debian: New Status in fonts-deva-extra package in Debian: New Status in fonts-gujr-extra package in Debian: New Status in fonts-guru-extra package in Debian: New Status in fonts-orya-extra package in Debian: New Bug description: [Impact] The fix of <https://bugs.debian.org/853848> wasn't accomplished properly. Renamings of conf files weren't addressed in maintainer scripts, upgrades from previous versions fail in this respect, and the package system generates warning messages. The problem has been reported in Debian, and the purpose of this bug report is to keep track of the progress. [Justification] This config file is broken in xenial and will still be broken on upgrade to bionic, which means the fonts in question will not be available to the system as intended if the user has upgraded. [Regression potential] Because this modifies maintainer scripts there is possibility of introducing a regression that will cause the package to fail to unpack. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/fonts-beng-extra/+bug/1701047/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~documentation-packages Post to : documentation-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~documentation-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp