Quoting Helmut Grohne (hel...@subdivi.de): > Package: fonts-liberation > Version: 1.07.2-5 > Severity: important > Control: affects -1 + calibre > > The fonts-liberation package provides the ttf-liberation package, but > does not ship a compatibility symlink for > /usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-liberation. This affects applications such > as calibre, which now contain a dangling symbolic link. The issue cannot > be fixed entirely in calibre, because upgrading ttf-liberation to the > transitional package breaks calibre. I see the following options: > > 1) Add ln -s liberation /usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-liberation in the > fonts-liberation package and remove the link for jessie. > 2) Add Breaks to for all affected packages. > > Of course the calibre maintainer should fix their part (#674838) as > well, but they have not yet done so despite the presence of a patch.
Sorry for coming late on this issue. Up to now, we had compatibility symlinks for each font. I just replaced them with a compatibility symlink for the entire directory, as you suggest. Other font maintainers, please comment, I'm not 100% sure this is the entirely correct solution.
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