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Package: ttf-arphic-bkai00mp
Version: 2.10-6.1
Severity: wishlist
[This also applies to ttf-arphic-bsmi00lp, ttf-arphic-gbsn00lp and
ttf-arphic-gkai00mp, but they share the same maintainer, so I'm filing
just one bug (on the asciibetically first package name) for
convenience. There are also three font packages not maintained by
Anthony Fok that Depend on xutils; for the moment I won't file bugs on
those packages, in the hope of first learning more about the bug from
this bug report.]
Various font packages Depend on xutils, and I was going to file a
wishlist bug asking to switch to a more specific package (perhaps with
`| xutils') now that xutils has been split into smaller packages; but
looking at the contents of ttf-arphic-bkai00mp and some of the other
packages (including at least one of the packages not maintained by
Anthony Fok), I can't actually see why xutils is a dependency. The
control scripts use defoma (which is already separately in the Depends
list), and no other non-essential/base package. There are no other
scripts in the packages I've looked at.
I haven't yet tried forcing a purge of xutils and its dependencies and
checking whether I can still install and use these fonts.
I note that x-ttcidfont-conf (Suggest'ed by ttf-arphic-bkai00mp) Depends
on xfonts-utils (for mkfontdir); I don't know if this is related.
Another clue is that the font packages that Depend on xutils are all
non-Roman fonts: Chinese, Japanese, Mongolian Cyrillic, and APL.
Do you remember why xutils is in the Depends list? Can it be simply
removed? Are the other three fonts (ttf-arhangai, ttf-mona,
xfonts-kapl) likely to be the same?
pjrm.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages ttf-arphic-bkai00mp depends on:
ii defoma 0.11.10-0.2 Debian Font Manager -- automatic f
ii xutils 1:7.3+16 X Window System utility programs m
ttf-arphic-bkai00mp recommends no packages.
Versions of packages ttf-arphic-bkai00mp suggests:
pn tfm-arphic-bkai00mp <none> (no description available)
ii x-ttcidfont-conf 29 TrueType and CID fonts configurati
ii xfs 1:1.0.8-2 X font server
-- no debconf information
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