severity 691945 wishlist tags 691945 wontfix thanks Hi Osamu,
On Wed, October 31, 2012 16:26, Osamu Aoki wrote: > As you know main area package can not list non-free/contrib in > recommends or depends per policy. But in many cases, one feels like > listing the following to ensure automatic font installation: > fonts-liberation | ttf-mscorefonts-installer > This is serious bug per policy 2.2.1. That is indeed a serious bug in /those packages/, but not in this package. If other packages mistakenly reference it in their Depends lines then that doesn't make ttf-mscorefonts-installer violate policy. Maybe a chage in ttf-mscorefonts-installer would help those packages, but that's a wishlist item instead. So I'm downgrading to withlist. > This situation can be avoided by this contrib package listing: > Provides: fonts-liberation I reject this proposal as the contents of this package are not functionally equal to those in fonts-liberation so adding the claim "Provides: fonts-liberation" is not accurate and will be confusing to say the least. I'm therefore marking this request as wontfix. > (I know these other package can list fonts-liberation in recommends > while suggesting ttf-mscorefonts-installer as another resolution. But > the fix I propose here will prevent people tempted to list > ttf-mscorefonts-installer after | for ever.) If people make their package buggy by listing a contrib package in the Depends line, the solution to that is that they stop doing that. I do not believe that making inaccurate claims in this package to correct the 'temptations' of others makes Debian net better. These fonts are not free. Debian has actively made policies against stuff in main pulling in non-free stuff automatically. I believe a suggestion like yours would work around that policy. I'm also not clear on which practical problem you're trying to solve. fonts-liberation is in main, so if you install libphp-jpgraph it will pull in fonts-liberation. Removing the "| ttf-mscorefonts-installer" therefore does no harm. Or what use case am I missing here? Cheers, Thijs -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
