Comment 10 for bug 973714

I explored what went on when packaging Widelands a while back when merging/tweaking the latest packaging from Debian. And it seems that the font symlinks are by design (see the rules file, specifically the override_dh_auto_install section) [1]. Presumably this is done because the fonts themselves are available in another package which then benefits any program on the system rather than Widelands shipping its own, duplicated fonts.

Though, Nasenbaer mentioned in #2 that there is a GPL2 vs 3 issue here, but won't the symlinked fonts be the newer ones potentially creating a problem here?

[1] http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~widelands-dev/widelands/debian/view/head:/debian/rules