-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi people.
Policy 11.8.5.1 says: "If one or more of the fonts so packaged are necessary for proper operation of the package with which they are associated the font package may be Recommended; if the fonts merely provide an enhancement, a Suggests relationship may be used. Packages must not Depend on font packages." Annotation to this paragraph is : "This is because the X server may retrieve fonts from the local file system or over the network from an X font server; the Debian package system is empowered to deal only with the local file system." Then I searched the Debian archive (in case of TrueType fonts): $ grep-aptavail -F Depends "ttf-" -s Package | wc -l 93 $ grep-aptavail \( -F Recommends "ttf-" --or -F Suggests "ttf-" \) - --and ! -F Depends "ttf-" -s Package | wc -l 101 So, there are 93 packages that violate "must" directive of policy. Some of them: fontconfig-config, blender, openjdk-6-jre, openoffice.org-core, vlc. And, as I understand, it leads to 93 bugs of "serious" severity and yet another pain for release team. Should I mass-file the bugs or this situation can be resolved through different approach? Regards, - -- Eugene V. Lyubimkin -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkh82RgACgkQchorMMFUmYymIQCgsQnmJ7pIIBJifTBebGYfx2QQ 8cgAnimYinZrpdlaIs12FkuEFVM0elrQ =wG1l -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
