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Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2015 16:30:31 -0700 (PDT)
From: "Peter A. Castro" <doctor@fruitbat.org>
To: David Stacey <drstacey@tiscali.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: x3270 post install script fails
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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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