Yes, in the thread
http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.devel.general/130808
talks about the problem. OK, thanks.

>>>>> Paul Hardy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Thank you both for your diagnostic information on this bug record.
> Thank you also for your interest in this package, which I'm now
> maintaining after it was orphaned for a couple of years.  I believe
> that the latest version fixes the problem.  However, I wanted to give
> you a more detailed explanation.

> First, "xfonts-unifont" was meant to overwrite unifont.pcf.gz with a
> more updated version, so it is okay that it's doing that.  It should
> just do it without complaining about anything being amiss.  I didn't
> put lines in the Debian package saying that "xfonts-unifont" Conflicts
> with and Replaces the old "unifont" package.

> Originally there was just a package called "unifont" that contained a
> BDF and later a PCF font.  I am now able to generate a TrueType font,
> thanks to software that Luis Gonzalez Miranda wrote.  After asking on
> debian lists, it sounded like the best approach was to split the
> "unifont" package into two new packages: "xfonts-unifont" for a PCF
> font, and "ttf-unifont" for a TrueType font.  That's what I did, with
> the "unifont" package now installing both "xfonts-unifont" and
> "ttf-unifont".

> I didn't think of the case of someone installing "xfonts-unifont" when
> "unifont" was already installed.  I should have.  My excuse is that
> this was my first Debian package. :-)

> A new version was just uploaded yesterday that should fix this
> problem.  There are also some glyph improvements, and more
> documentation if you're interested in the "unifont-bin" package to see
> how it is all put together.

> See http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/u/unifont/ for the 20080808 
> version.



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