[Pkg-fonts-devel] obsolete conffiles in /etc/defoma/hints

[Paul Wise]

On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 8:15 PM, Jean-Christophe Dubacq
<jcdubacq1 at free.fr> wrote:

> Is keithp still active? ttf-bitstream-vera is superseded by ttf-dejavu
> anyway...

He is kinda. He specifically re-introduced ttf-bitstream-vera after it
was removed from Debian, for various reasons.

> Due to the number of bugs, I hesitate between declaring this a MBF (and
> checking with debian-devel) or filing individual bugs. Most probably,
> signaling it there would be enough. I can also send bugs if you think
> it's better.

I think you can probably just file the bugs.

> Remark that for the wrongly versionned packages, the new version should
> be the version of the newly built package (to care for users that
> installed packages with the wrong version). Please know also that the
> wiki page on conffile management does not give scripts that do the right
> thing in case of abort-upgrade, but apparently this is not important.

If you know how to fix the wiki page, please do.

-- 
bye,
pabs

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