odd file-requires in f7 packages

[Peter Jones]

Hans de Goede wrote:

> xblast-0:2.10.4-2.fc7.i386:/usr/share/fonts/bitstream-vera/Vera.ttf
> chess-0:1.0-5.fc7.i386:/usr/share/fonts/bitstream-vera/Vera.ttf
> 
> These are both games which used to be shipped with some none free font, 
> since these fonts get openened and rendered directly not through X / 
> Xftconfig, I know no other way to make sure those files are there, 
> basicly the (patched) code for this games does:
> fopen("/usr/share/fonts/bitstream-vera/Vera.ttf", "r"). Since fonts have 
> moved around sometimes in the past, and that will break this games, I've 
> written the Requires as file requires, so that I get broken requires 
> report from the requires checking scripts during the devel cycle instead 
> of BZ entries from users that it crashes once the new font layout hits 
> the streets in the next fedora release.
> 
> I'm open to suggestions to doing this smarter. And ship a private copy 
> of Vera.ttf is not a good suggestion!

Maybe it's worth introducing something like the following in the font 
packages:

Provides: fontlayout(1, bitstream-vera/Vera.ttf)

Alternately, we could just ban moving the fonts around and then you can do:

Requires: bitstream-vera-fonts

;)

-- 
   Peter