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--- Comment #22 from Nicolas Mailhot nicolas.mailhot@laposte.net 2009-02-23 13:41:09 EDT --- The point of a compat package is to kill the old name completely so packages depending on it adapt to the new font name now. I think that's the same thing you mean as pulling the band-aid (also the packagers of those should seriously consider why they depend on freefont and not one of our default fonts)
But first, freefont packaging need to be fixed