* Luk Claes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-06-03 20:39]:

> Rafael Laboissiere wrote:
> > * [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-06-02 11:32]:
> > 
> >> Package: ttf2tex
> >> Severity: serious
> >>
> >> The security team wants to deprecate freetype1 for lenny. Your
> >> package either depends or build-depends upon freetype1(-tools).
> >>
> >> Please drop that dependency, so that freetype1 can be removed from
> >> Debian.
> >>
> >> (see http://bugs.debian.org/480230)
> > 
> > This has already been discussed in Bug#481786.  The ttf2tex package needs 
> > /usb/bin/ttf2pk and /usr/bin/ttf2tfm, which are in freetype1-tools. Unless
> > these programs are ported to freetype2, build dependency on freetype1 will
> > still be needed.  Sorry.
> 
> Sorry, unless you want your package to not be included in Lenny, you'd
> better look for alternatives to build depending on freetype1.

Apparently, there are no alternatives.  This means that ttf2tex will have to
be dropped from Debian.  That's sad.

-- 
Rafael



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