Bug#684923: fontconfig-config: Please stop messing with my /etc

2012-11-21 Thread intrigeri
Hi Keith, intrigeri wrote (29 Oct 2012 21:19:47 GMT) : Otherwise, this patch seems fine to me. Nice job! Tagging patch accordingly: I propose we fix this bug that way, and clone/reassign/whatever to the policy if there's still disagreement, or need for clarification, on how to interpret the

Bug#684923: fontconfig-config: Please stop messing with my /etc

2012-10-29 Thread intrigeri
tags 684923 + patch thanks Hi, Andreas Metzler wrote (14 Oct 2012 06:49:10 GMT) : On 2012-09-29 Andreas Metzler ametz...@downhill.at.eu.org wrote: [...] It is just not yet documented. After reading this bug and #412159, I do concur. /usr/share/doc/fontconfig/README.Debian seems to be

Bug#684923: fontconfig-config: Please stop messing with my /etc

2012-10-29 Thread intrigeri
Hi, Vincent Lefevre wrote (05 Sep 2012 08:59:59 GMT) : No, the fact that a symlink change (whether this is done manually or by a configuration via debconf) is not preserved after upgrade is not regarded as a RC bug. Quoting Steve Langasek[*]: Debian policy requires that local changes to

Bug#684923: fontconfig-config: Please stop messing with my /etc

2012-10-14 Thread Andreas Metzler
On 2012-09-29 Andreas Metzler ametz...@downhill.at.eu.org wrote: [...] It is just not yet documented. /usr/share/doc/fontconfig/README.Debian seems to be outdated. * /etc/fonts/conf.d/30-debconf-no-bitmaps.conf was the filename used in old versions of fontconfig ( 2.4.x?) * The package one

Bug#684923: fontconfig-config: Please stop messing with my /etc

2012-09-29 Thread Andreas Metzler
On 2012-09-06 Cyril Brulebois k...@debian.org wrote: [...] Let's assume you were talking about fontconfig's README.Debian instead; it has: | If you wish to enable bitmapped fonts manually, either reconfigure this | package (with dpkg-reconfigure fontconfig-config), or remove the | symbolic

Bug#684923: fontconfig-config: Please stop messing with my /etc

2012-09-06 Thread Fabian Greffrath
Am 05.09.2012 10:32, schrieb Cyril Brulebois: Says which doc? None AFAICT. Does conf.d/README talk about debconf at all? Hell no. No, but it says If you wish to enable bitmapped fonts manually, either reconfigure this package (with dpkg-reconfigure fontconfig-config), or remove the

Bug#684923: fontconfig-config: Please stop messing with my /etc

2012-09-06 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Fabian Greffrath fab...@greffrath.com (06/09/2012): Am 05.09.2012 10:32, schrieb Cyril Brulebois: Says which doc? None AFAICT. Does conf.d/README talk about debconf at all? Hell no. No, but it says If you wish to enable bitmapped fonts manually, either reconfigure this package (with

Bug#684923: fontconfig-config: Please stop messing with my /etc

2012-09-06 Thread Fabian Greffrath
Am 06.09.2012 12:37, schrieb Cyril Brulebois: (A) The filename is wrong. Yes, I am sorry I mixed up the file names. (B) Removing the symlink is documented and not honored. It's another symlink than the one you changed. Compare 70-yes-bitmaps.conf vs. 30-debconf-no-bitmaps.conf. But in

Bug#684923: fontconfig-config: Please stop messing with my /etc

2012-09-05 Thread Fabian Greffrath
kibi@kathleen:/etc/fonts/conf.d$ ls -l 70-no-bitmaps.conf lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 33 Aug 14 21:11 70-no-bitmaps.conf - ../conf.avail/70-yes-bitmaps.conf Well, there's your problem. Obviously, you manually changed the symlink 70-no-bitmaps.conf to point to another file

Bug#684923: fontconfig-config: Please stop messing with my /etc

2012-09-05 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Fabian Greffrath fab...@greffrath.com (05/09/2012): Obviously, you manually changed the symlink 70-no-bitmaps.conf to point to another file ../conf.avail/70-yes-bitmaps.conf. However, the symlinks are expected to point to files of the same name in the ../conf.avail directory. Says which doc?

Bug#684923: fontconfig-config: Please stop messing with my /etc

2012-09-05 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2012-09-05 10:32:45 +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote: Fabian Greffrath fab...@greffrath.com (05/09/2012): Obviously, you manually changed the symlink 70-no-bitmaps.conf to point to another file ../conf.avail/70-yes-bitmaps.conf. However, the symlinks are expected to point to files of the

Bug#684923: fontconfig-config: Please stop messing with my /etc

2012-09-04 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2012-08-14 21:20:04 +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote: /etc/fonts/conf.d/README pretends: ,--- | Each file in this directory is a fontconfig configuration file. Fontconfig | scans this directory, loading all files of the form [0-9][0-9]*.conf. | These files are normally installed in

Bug#684923: fontconfig-config: Please stop messing with my /etc

2012-09-04 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Vincent Lefevre vinc...@vinc17.net (04/09/2012): kibi@kathleen:/etc/fonts/conf.d$ ls -l 70-no-bitmaps.conf lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 40 Aug 14 21:11 70-no-bitmaps.conf - /etc/fonts/conf.avail/70-no-bitmaps.conf Glancing at the postinst, that might be due to your retrieving values from

Bug#684923: fontconfig-config: Please stop messing with my /etc

2012-09-04 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2012-09-04 20:15:49 +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote: Since you don't seem to understand “debconf is not a registry”, please go read Debian Policy 10.7.3. What's stored in debconf doesn't matter. Debian Policy 10.7.3 has nothing about debconf and nothing about your bug. -- Vincent Lefèvre

Bug#684923: fontconfig-config: Please stop messing with my /etc

2012-08-14 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Package: fontconfig-config Version: 2.9.0-7 Severity: serious Justification: debconf is not a registry Hi, given I like the Fixed font, I got rid of the following file a while ago: /etc/fonts/conf.d/70-no-bitmaps.conf Restarting my X session today, no more Fixed! And indeed, that file is back.