Vincent Lefevre <vinc...@vinc17.net> (04/09/2012):
> > kibi@kathleen:/etc/fonts/conf.d$ ls -l 70-no-bitmaps.conf
> > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 40 Aug 14 21:11 70-no-bitmaps.conf -> 
> > /etc/fonts/conf.avail/70-no-bitmaps.conf
> > 
> > Glancing at the postinst, that might be due to your retrieving values
> > from debconf and overwriting administrator's files based on those.
> 
> There's an inconsistency with:
> 
> > -- debconf information:
> >   fontconfig/subpixel_rendering: Automatic
> >   fontconfig/hinting_type: Native
> >   fontconfig/enable_bitmaps: false
>                                ^^^^^
> > Debconf is not a registry, please don't lose administrator's changes.
> 
> IMHO, the administrator did something bad by modifying something that is
> handled by debconf. If dpkg didn't reinstall the file, the administrator
> could complain that debconf says that bitmaps are disabled while this
> is not the case, and see this as a bug.

Since you don't seem to understand “debconf is not a registry”, please
go read Debian Policy 10.7.3. What's stored in debconf doesn't matter.

Mraw,
KiBi.

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