Bug#976736: fontforge might should Provide: fontforge-nox

[Anthony Fok <foka@debian.org>]

Hi John,

On Mon, Dec 7, 2020 at 8:57 AM John Scott <jscott@posteo.net> wrote:
>
> Package: fontforge
> Version: 1:20190801~dfsg-4
> Severity: normal
>
> Hi,
>
> When trying to install its build dependencies, I found that wine-development
> depends on fontforge-nox. Since the X and non-X versions conflict, that
> required X FontForge to be removed from my system.
>
> If the graphical FontForge is a superset of the non-X version, I think it
> should have
> Provides: fontforge-nox
> added.
>
> Alternatively, if this can't be applied but the X version should still be
> suitable for the build dependencies, please reassign this bug to
> src:wine-development for me.

I highly recommend that you look into using pbuilder or sbuild (i.e.
with a chroot) for building packages.  These tools are designed to
avoid any sort of interference from the package to the system or vice
versa, similar to what you've experienced.

That said, I'm going to add a "Provides: fontforge-nox" like you
suggested in my next upload of 1:20201107~dfsg-3, which will happen
later today.  Please let me know if it works for you or not.

Cheers,
Anthony