[Pkg-fonts-devel] Dropping defoma hints files: current proposed changes

[Christian Perrier]

I just uploaded ttf-arabeyes that drops the use of defoma and defoma
hints files.

The changes have been:

- drop debian/<package>.defoma-hints
- no longer depend nor build depend on defoma
- drop calls to dh_installdefoma in debian/rules
- add a preinst script to deal with the removal of
  /etc/defoma/hints/<package>.hints and purge the hints file from
  defoma:

Example for ttf-arabeyes:

#!/bin/sh

set -e

# Remove a no-longer used conffile
rm_conffile() {
    local PKGNAME="$1"
    local CONFFILE="$2"
    [ -e "$CONFFILE" ] || return 0

    local md5sum="$(md5sum $CONFFILE | sed -e 's/ .*//')"
    local old_md5sum="$(dpkg-query -W -f='${Conffiles}' $PKGNAME | \
            sed -n -e "\' $CONFFILE ' { s/ obsolete$//; s/.* //; p }")"
    if [ "$md5sum" != "$old_md5sum" ]; then
        echo "Obsolete conffile $CONFFILE has been modified by you."
        echo "Saving as $CONFFILE.dpkg-bak ..."
        mv -f "$CONFFILE" "$CONFFILE".dpkg-bak
    else
        echo "Removing obsolete conffile $CONFFILE ..."
        rm -f "$CONFFILE"
    fi
}

VERSION=2.0-5
PKG=ttf-arabeyes
FILE=/etc/defoma/hints/${PKG}.hints

case "$1" in
install|upgrade)
    if dpkg --compare-versions "$2" le "$VERSION"; then
	if [ -f $FILE ]; then
        	if [ -x /usr/bin/defoma-font ]; then
			defoma-font purge-all $FILE || true
		fi
		rm_conffile $PKG $FILE
	fi
    fi
esac

#DEBHELPER#


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