[Pkg-fonts-devel] Bug#413571: Bug#413571: Debian bug #413571 for DejaVu font still present in latest SVN snapshot

Tue Apr 2 08:09:07 UTC 2013

Hi Christian,

> I'm indeed pondering compatibility symlinks. Have we done that for
> other packages already?

I've seen you solved this by symlinking the old and new font directories.
This practice is highly discouraged, please c.f.
http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2012/10/msg00070.html

I'd like to change that directory symlink to per-file symlinks in the
transitional packages. Are you alright with that change?

> I was under the feeling that it had been done but I can't find good
> examples.

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=689575

 - Fabian