Guillem Jover writes ("Bug#772860: xfonts-traditional: Trigger cycle causes
dpkg to fail processing"):
> This package can get involved in a trigger cycle. The problem is that
> it installs interests on /usr/share/fonts/X11 which is is provided by
> xfonts-encodings and xfonts-utils, both directly or transitively
> depended on by xfonts-traditional itself.
Ooops.
> A solution to the above is to simply switch the triggers to their
> noawait variants. In this case from «interest» to «interest-noawait»,
> as long as they are not critical for the activating packages, which I
> don't think is the case here(?). Otherwise a fix might be more
> involved.
You are quite right, and this is the right fix. I will take care of
this RSN.
(And I even designed all this trigger stuff. I should have known
better. Sorry.)
Ian.
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