Thank you for this comprehensive reply.

Cheers,

Timur.

On Tue, 2019-05-28 at 11:55 +0200, parafin wrote:
> Basically it was decided that depending on just fonts-roboto is the
> right thing to do. In oldstable Debian it's the only package that
> exists
> and it contains the actual fonts, in other Debians it's a meta-
> package
> that depends on actual package (-hinted in stable, -unhinted in
> newer). Looks like that in testing and unstable -hinted package is
> dummy and doesn't contain anything. So your original request to
> depend
> on all variants makes sense only for stable, but you mention Debian
> Next, which I assume is testing. I'm not sure what's this whole mess
> with -hinted and -unhinted is all about, but anyway it doesn't look
> like packagers should care about it, fonts-roboto is the right thing
> to
> depend on.
> 
> As for requires vs recommends dependency there was a disagreement.
> pmjdebruijn chose "recommends" for his Ubuntu packages, darix on the
> other hand thinks that "requires" is the right thing to do. I don't
> think we managed to convince him otherwise, it's his decision in the
> end after all.
> 

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