Well I recived my e-mail last niht and now have an acount and am done registering as a package maintainer for xfstt I was going to make an upload of the current package I have (fixes one wishlist bug..and a few bugs that were not debian-reported with a new version of upstream source) and leave the other bug (it violates botht hte FSSTND and FHS..but not in a way that breaks any other package) for after that...but I figured it should be simple...might as well tackle this now the basic problem is that when the program was written it was set to store truetype fonts for the server in /usr/ttfonts the package maintainer before me changed this to /var/ttfonts (which I agree is also wrong...but I think is "less wrong" than /usr/ttfonts) I am planning to put them in /usr/share/fonts/ttfonts ( I think...I have a note at home about what the actual dir name is...I am not home now so...just mentaly insert the proper location and name there if thats wrong ) so how should i do that? I was thinking add a preinst script which checks for the existance of /var/ttfonts (and just for shits and giggles /usr/ttfonts ) and prompts the user saying that the new location is X and ask whether they should be automatically moved there I would assume I should try to do a copy of it first to make sure it moves properly (just in case /usr/share is full at this point or something like that) also...will it be easy for me to check if /var/ttfonts is a symbolic link? it is suggested in the docs that some people will want to just ln -s /dos/windows/fonts /usr/ttfonts (obviously or /var/ttfonts) does all of this sound right? how can I easily check ina script if something is a symbolic link? 9and if it is...can I easily recrate it somewhere else?) of course I will need to prompt the user for some of this stuff (would be bad form to just move directories around quietly) also: side note: I should probably prompt on a new install anyway because xfstt comes with no fonts and is useless with no fonts (wont start and run) and most ttfonts have weird licenses and I am yet to find one DFSG compliant does anyone know of one (even a simple one) that I could include just so that the server will at least start? (or if its possible to come up with a few, maybe make a separate package out of some fonts and recommend those during install?) -Steve -- ** Stephen Carpenter ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** "We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart." -- H. L. Mencken (1880-1956)
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