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Bug#365503: xfonts-encodings is not a font package



Drew Parsons <dparsons@debian.org> writes:

> Package: lintian
> Version: 1.23.18
> Severity: normal

> If a package (xprint-common in my case) Depends: xfonts-encodings, then
> lintian returns the error
> "package-depends-on-an-x-font-package depends: xfonts-encodings"
> citing Policy 11.8.5 "if a binary package needs a given font then it must
> Recommends: it, not Depends:".

> But xfonts-encodings is not a font package (it's a font infrastructure
> package), so I don't think 11.8.5 applies to it.

*grumble*.  We had a good heuristic for this, but several of the new X.Org
packages don't follow it.  I'll add this to the exception list
(xfonts-utils we already ran into).

-- 
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>



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