[Pkg-fonts-devel] Bug#676307: fonts-ipaexfont-{gothic, mincho}: fails to install: update-alternatives: error: error creating symbolic link /usr/share/fonts/truetype/*.ttf.dpkg-tmp

[Andreas Beckmann]

Package: fonts-ipaexfont-gothic,fonts-ipaexfont-mincho
Version: 00103-11
Severity: serious
User: debian-qa at lists.debian.org
Usertags: piuparts

Hi,

during a test with piuparts I noticed your package failed to install. As
per definition of the release team this makes the package too buggy for
a release, thus the severity.

>From the attached log (scroll to the bottom...):

  Selecting previously unselected package fonts-ipaexfont-mincho.
  (Reading database ... 6862 files and directories currently installed.)
  Unpacking fonts-ipaexfont-mincho (from .../fonts-ipaexfont-mincho_00103-11_all.deb) ...
  Setting up fonts-ipaexfont-mincho (00103-11) ...
  update-alternatives: using /usr/share/fonts/opentype/ipaexfont-mincho/ipaexm.ttf to provide /usr/share/fonts/truetype/fonts-japanese-mincho.ttf (fonts-japanese-mincho.ttf) in auto mode.
  update-alternatives: error: error creating symbolic link `/usr/share/fonts/truetype/fonts-japanese-mincho.ttf.dpkg-tmp': No such file or directory
  dpkg: error processing fonts-ipaexfont-mincho (--configure):
   subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 2

You must ship /usr/share/fonts/truetype/ as an empty directory.
Please don't mkdir/rmdir manually in the maintainer script

cheers,

Andreas
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