Bug#661544: Re: Bug#661544: cups: fontconfig conf file should be in conf.avail, not conf.
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On Thu, 10 Apr 2014 11:48:53 -0700 Ryan Tandy <rtandy@sd63.bc.ca> wrote:
> On 14-02-05 08:27 AM, Till Kamppeter wrote:
> > I do not really no for what this file is good. It simply came in
> > with the pdftoopvp filter which was hosted separately before the
> > introduction of cups-filters.
>
> I actually ran into this file just yesterday, while troubleshooting a
> misbehaving PDF file. These are the aliases recommended by
> http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/poppler/ to work around
> historical issues.
>
> The ZapfDingbats alias looks like a workaround for fdo#19128 (Debian
> #590487, LP: #130687). It's fixed upstream in fontconfig 2.9.0.
>
> The Symbol alias looks like a workaround for fdo#6478 (LP: #37745).
> It's fixed upstream in fontconfig 2.3.95. (I suspect that change
> actually introduced Debian #528808).
>
> As these both have upstream fixes now, IMO this file can be dropped.
Till; this should be fixed on the upstream side.
Cheers, OdyX
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