Hi, I'm attaching the debdiff with a patch that fixes the issue. It's quite simple, it adds a function is_initial_configuration that checks the parameters mentioned in the previous update, and then uses that function to guard the code that touches the symlinks.
The is_initial_configuration function is inspired in the one included in the openldap package. http://sources.debian.net/src/openldap/2.4.40-2/debian/slapd.scripts-common These are the tests I performed to verify that this did the right thing (sorry about the Spanish messages, I thought I had used LANG=C, but somehow it didn't take): *** Normal installation, doesn't recreate the symlink: root@penelope:# rm /etc/fonts/conf.d/70-no-bitmaps.conf root@penelope:# sudo dpkg -i fontconfig_2.11.0-6.3_amd64.deb fontconfig-config_2.11.0-6.3_all.deb (Leyendo la base de datos ... 284248 ficheros o directorios instalados actualmente.) Preparing to unpaock fontconfig_2.11.0-6.3_amd64.deb ... Unpacking fontconfig (2.11.0-6.3) over (2.11.0-6.3) ... Preparing to unpack fontconfig-config_2.11.0-6.3_all.deb ... Unpacking fontconfig-config (2.11.0-6.3) over (2.11.0-6.3) ... Configurando fontconfig-config (2.11.0-6.3) ... Configurando fontconfig (2.11.0-6.3) ... Regenerating fonts cache... done. Processing triggers for man-db (2.7.0.2-3) ... root@penelope:# ls -l /etc/fonts/conf.d/70-no-bitmaps.conf ls: no se puede acceder a /etc/fonts/conf.d/70-no-bitmaps.conf: No existe el fichero o el directorio *** Reconfiguring, recreates the symlink: root@penelope:# dpkg-reconfigure fontconfig-config root@penelope:# ls -l /etc/fonts/conf.d/70-no-bitmaps.conf lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 51 nov 23 14:17 /etc/fonts/conf.d/70-no-bitmaps.conf -> /usr/share/fontconfig/conf.avail/70-no-bitmaps.conf root@penelope:# sudo dpkg -i fontconfig_2.11.0-6.3_amd64.deb fontconfig-config_2.11.0-6.3_all.deb (Leyendo la base de datos ... 284248 ficheros o directorios instalados actualmente.) Preparing to unpack fontconfig_2.11.0-6.3_amd64.deb ... Unpacking fontconfig (2.11.0-6.3) over (2.11.0-6.3) ... Preparing to unpack fontconfig-config_2.11.0-6.3_all.deb ... Unpacking fontconfig-config (2.11.0-6.3) over (2.11.0-6.3) ... Configurando fontconfig-config (2.11.0-6.3) ... Configurando fontconfig (2.11.0-6.3) ... Regenerating fonts cache... done. Processing triggers for man-db (2.7.0.2-3) ... root@penelope:# ls -l /etc/fonts/conf.d/70-no-bitmaps.conf lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 51 nov 23 14:17 /etc/fonts/conf.d/70-no-bitmaps.conf -> /usr/share/fontconfig/conf.avail/70-no-bitmaps.conf *** New installation (on a pbuilder): root@penelope:/# apt-cache policy fontconfig-config fontconfig-config: Installed: (none) Candidate: 2.11.0-6.2 Version table: 2.11.0-6.2 0 500 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ sid/main amd64 Packages root@penelope:/# ls -l /etc/fonts/conf.d/70-no-bitmaps.conf ls: cannot access /etc/fonts/conf.d/70-no-bitmaps.conf: No such file or directory root@penelope:/# dpkg -i libfontconfig1_2.11.0-6.3_amd64.deb fontconfig-config_2.11.0-6.3_all.deb fontconfig_2.11.0-6.3_amd64.deb Selecting previously unselected package libfontconfig1:amd64. (Reading database ... 12043 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to unpack libfontconfig1_2.11.0-6.3_amd64.deb ... Unpacking libfontconfig1:amd64 (2.11.0-6.3) ... Selecting previously unselected package fontconfig-config. Preparing to unpack fontconfig-config_2.11.0-6.3_all.deb ... Unpacking fontconfig-config (2.11.0-6.3) ... Selecting previously unselected package fontconfig. Preparing to unpack fontconfig_2.11.0-6.3_amd64.deb ... Unpacking fontconfig (2.11.0-6.3) ... Setting up fontconfig-config (2.11.0-6.3) ... Setting up libfontconfig1:amd64 (2.11.0-6.3) ... Setting up fontconfig (2.11.0-6.3) ... Regenerating fonts cache... done. Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.19-13) ... root@penelope:/# ls -l /etc/fonts/conf.d/70-no-bitmaps.conf lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 51 Nov 23 13:34 /etc/fonts/conf.d/70-no-bitmaps.conf -> /usr/share/fontconfig/conf.avail/70-no-bitmaps.conf *** I believe all cases are accounted for and that this is the right fix. Please let me know if I'm forgetting to consider some case. Thanks, Marga
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