fonts packages review and conffile-without-noreplace-flag warning

[Tom "spot" Callaway]

On Wed, 2007-03-28 at 11:25 +0900, Akira TAGOH wrote:
> >>>>> On Tue, 27 Mar 2007 09:12:41 -0500,
> >>>>> "TC" == "Tom \"spot\" Callaway" <tcallawa at redhat.com> wrote:
> 
> TC> Question: Is it really a configuration file?
> 
> TC> To determine this, ask, will a user be permitted to change it? If the
> TC> answer is yes, then the user will be quite unhappy to have it replaced
> TC> by the stock copy when they do a package update. If it is not something
> TC> designed to be hand-edited (or shipped with a tool to edit), then its
> TC> probably not a config file.
> 
> Yes, it's a configuration file that designed to determine
> the connection between PostScript fontname and the real
> font. someone may wants to use another one rather than the
> default font. those would be helpful in this case.
> 
> However my question is, what happens if the default font is
> changed? 

I would say that if they changed it to use a specific font, then, they
really want that specific font, whether the default changes or not.

The default font should only change in a major release, and should be
documented in the Release Notes.

I think this is a %config(noreplace) case.

~spot