Bug#1100871: fontconfig-config: postinst fails and breaks installation in minimal build chroots without /usr/local/share/

[Luca Boccassi]

On Wed, 19 Mar 2025 19:51:46 +0000 Luca Boccassi <bluca at debian.org>
wrote:
> Package: fontconfig-config
> Version: 2.15.0-2.1
> Severity: serious
> Justification: package uninstallable on minimal chroots
> 
> Dear Maintainer(s),
> 
> The NMU for #962420 moved a 'mkdir' in fontconfig-config.postinst out
> of an 'if' statement, so now when it fails the postinst aborts and
the
> package installation fails.
> This happens on minimal build systems, like the Open Build Service,
> when the package is pulled in as a build dependency, as
> /usr/local/share/ is not present on the builder. The fix is trivial,
> the mkdir needs to use '-p' so that it creates the parent directories
> if missing too.
> 
> I have uploaded an NMU to DELAYED/1 given it's already in testing.

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