On Tue, May 06, 2014 at 02:25:32PM +0200, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > Quoting Nicolas Spalinger (2014-05-06 13:45:44) > > On 06/05/14 06:32, Christian PERRIER wrote: > > > Quoting Nicolas Spalinger (nicolas_spalinger@sil.org): > > >> On 28/04/14 05:39, Debian testing autoremoval watch wrote: > > >>> open-font-design-toolkit 1.5 is marked for autoremoval from testing on 2014-05-27 > > >>> > > >>> It (build-)depends on packages with these RC bugs: > > >>> 744698: fontmatrix: [fontmatrix] [DFSG] missing source > > >> > > >> Upstream fontmatrix sources have moved to > > >> https://github.com/fontmatrix/fontmatrix > > >> > > >> Can someone please help prevent this autoremoval? > > > > > > I'm somehow "tracking" this issue, but the real fix is in the > > > fontmatrix package. > > > > > > I actually wonder whether it is really a good idea to *depend* on > > > packages. We should maybe only *recommend* this in order to avoid > > > o-f-d-t to be in danger as soon as one of the packages in the toolkit > > > is RC-buggy in the distribution. > > > > > > So, the fix might be "s/Depends:/Recommends:" > > > > > > Since this is intended to be a meta-package (an empty package which > > pulls in various other packages) what would work best? > > I believe this is best: > > * Use "Depends:" generally, and keep the list up-to-date. > * Use "Recommendends:" if available only on a subset of Debian > architectures. Hello fonts folks, Does anyone have any plans to get open-font-design-toolkit into a state for release in jessie? Currently it is blocked on RC bugs in fontmatrix (missing sources) and zpb-ttf (maintainers email address fails). Would it be sufficient to "Recommends:" on those? Or would it be necessary to remove the dependencies on those for the package that goes in jessie? zpb-ttf is effectively orphaned so I could upload a package to change maintainer to the team. But the version 0.7-2 is way behind the current version 1.0.3 . Would we really want 0.7 in jessie? I think we should just remove the dependency and upload zpb-ttf with changed maintainer to experimental. I think it is worth trying to sort out the missing sources for fontmatrix and fix that RC bug. Regards, Daniel
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