[Bug 819106] Re: msttcorefonts fails to install because of bad fontconfig interaction

[Rick Spencer]

I'm not certain what the bug workflow for foundations is supposed to be,
so I assigned to Ubuntu Foundations. I suspect that mvo will be assigned
the bug ultimately, so I subscribed him. I also subscribed Amanda
because, aiui, this whole eula thing springs from some legal
obligations.

** Changed in: msttcorefonts (Ubuntu)
     Assignee: (unassigned) => Ubuntu Foundations Team (ubuntu-foundations-team)

** Changed in: msttcorefonts (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided => High

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Title:
  msttcorefonts fails to install because of bad fontconfig interaction

Status in “msttcorefonts” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Per the following bug
  http://bugs.debian.org/636173
  https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/819097

  fontconfig's postinst likes to delete empty directories in
  /usr/share/fonts. Unfortunately, msttcorefonts packages an empty
  directory, /usr/share/fonts/truetype/msttcorefonts, and depends on its
  existence in its own postinst. Therefore, if you install these two
  packages in the same install run, msttcorefonts' postinst fails.

  I've attached a debdiff to create this directory in the postinst
  instead of packaging it in debian/dirs.

  This is a re-filing of my comment at the bottom of
  https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/670629
  I can't seem to reopen a "Fix released" bug, and it seemed better to open a new bug anyway. See that bug for some more context.

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