On Wed, 16 Sep 2015, David Stacey wrote:
Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2015 23:17:10 +0100
From: David Stacey
Subject: x3270 post install script fails
Greetings, David,
The x3270 package performs the following in its post install script:
FONTDIR=/usr/share/fonts
ENCODINGSDIR=$FONTDIR/encodings
MKFONTDIR=/usr/bin/mkfontdir
$MKFONTDIR -e $ENCODINGSDIR $FONTDIR/misc
This fails because the directory '/usr/share/fonts/encodings' no longer
exists. (The directory used to be provided by the 'font-encodings' package,
which is now obsolete).
If it's obsolete then there's no point in having mkfontdir try and use it.
Or would a user purposely create it for their own supplemental font usage?
Probably the best way to resolve this is to add a 'mkdir -p ${ENCODINGSDIR}'
to the post install script, rather than just assume its existence - provided
this 'encodings.dir' is still being read by the X server. Otherwise, use
'/usr/share/X11/fonts/encodings' as the encodings directory.
Or, perhaps it would be better to check for the encodings directory
existance and only supply it to mkfontdir then. I'll play with this a
little.
Thanks for the report.
Dave.
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