[Pkg-fonts-devel] Bug#737167: xfonts-wqy: prompting due to modified conffiles which were not modified by the user

[Paul Hardy]

This RC bug from 2014 reports packaging problems with configuration
files.  In 2015, ChangZhuo Chen uploaded a new version with suffix
"rc1-1" having the changelog entry "Fix wrong configuration file."
See the changelog entry excerpted below:

------------------start changelog entry-------------------
xfonts-wqy (1.0.0~rc1-1) unstable; urgency=medium

  * New upstream release.
  * Bump Standards-Version to 3.9.6.
  * Use copyright-format 1.0.
  * Fix wrong configuration file.
  * Update watch.
  * Remove patches.
  * Add ChangZhuo Chen as Uploaders.

 -- ChangZhuo Chen (陳昌倬) <czchen at debian.org>  Sun, 22 Nov 2015 21:56:25 +0800
------------------end changelog entry--------------------

Did that upload fix this bug, and the bug just wasn't marked as closed?

There is also a FTBFS bug for this package (#808850).  I posted a
patch that is a workaround for the FTBFS problem.

These are the only two RC bugs for xfonts-wqy.

Right now, xfonts-wqy is marked for removal from testing on January
14th because of these two RC bugs.  I just noticed this a little over
a day ago.

Popcon reports over 1000 installations of this package.  Can the
Debian Fonts Task Force please prepare a new upload to prevent this
package from being removed from testing?

Thank you,


Paul Hardy