[maemo-developers] [maemo-commits] r17271 - projects/haf/trunk/pango1.0/debian

[From: Claudio Saavedra]

On Fri, 2009-01-23 at 17:05 +0100, Loïc Minier wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 23, 2009, subversion at stage.maemo.org wrote:
> >   * Revisit where which files belong to fix conflicts
> >   * Alter module setup so that fonts actually work
> 
> > +install/libpango1.0-common::
> > +	debian/tmp/usr/bin/pango-querymodules > debian/tmp/etc/pango/pango.modules
> 
>  I'd like to know what actual problem you've hit so that perhaps we can
>  fix it in the Debian packaging.  Read below for why it was done that
>  way.

I'm not sure whether Christian is in this mailing list, so I'll add him
to the CC list.

> 
>  If you don't upgrade libpango.so.* and /etc/pango/pango.modules at the
>  same time (in the same package), there's a window where you can't start
>  apps using pango.  This is an issue when e.g. you're starting a debconf
>  Gtl+/Pango dialog during the upgrade (this is not an use case in maemo,
>  but you probably have other pango based programs which might have to
>  start during the upgrade).
> 
>  (Also you don't want to ship an /etc/pango/pango.modules if it's
>  autogenerated data which the user shouldn't touch; this belongs in some
>  other dir than /etc.)
> 

Claudio