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. - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private
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