PPC Dapper => Edgy fails on gsfonts-x11 and unifont

Bug #63140 reported by Jonathan Hudson
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gsfonts-x11 (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade from PPC dapper to edgy results in:

0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1292 not upgraded.
2 not fully installed or removed.
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Setting up gsfonts-x11 (0.20) ...
usage error: unrecognized option
Usage: update-fonts-dir DIRECTORY ...
       update-fonts-dir { -h | --help }
This program is a wrapper for mkfontdir(1x) that is primarily useful to Debian
package maintainer scripts. See update-fonts-dir(8) for more information.
Options:
    -h, --help display this usage message and exitdpkg: error processing gsfonts-x11 (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 2
Setting up unifont (1.0-3ubuntu1) ...
usage error: unrecognized option
Usage: update-fonts-dir DIRECTORY ...
       update-fonts-dir { -h | --help }
This program is a wrapper for mkfontdir(1x) that is primarily useful to Debian
package maintainer scripts. See update-fonts-dir(8) for more information.
Options:
    -h, --help display this usage message and exitdpkg: error processing unifont (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 2
Errors were encountered while processing:
 gsfonts-x11
 unifont
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

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Jonathan Hudson (jh+lpd) wrote :

The post install part

update-fonts-dir --x11r7-layout Type1

Is not compatible with the documented options for update-fonts-dir (-h|--help) or a path).

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Jonathan Hudson (jh+lpd) wrote :

And trivially equating --x11r7-layout to a "shift" shell operation allows the install to move on the next failure point (another bug report).

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glut (glut) wrote :

comfirmed ;) today I tried to upgrade dapper -> egdy and I hit just this bug. Hoewer, removing --x11r7-layout switch from /var/lib/dpkg/gsfonts-x11.postint, let me finish upgrade

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towsonu2003 (towsonu2003) wrote :

I am closing this bug as it's a duplicate of bug # 52803 , where the work will go on. You might want to comment to that bug. thanks for the report :)

Changed in gsfonts-x11:
status: Unconfirmed → Rejected
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