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

[Drew Parsons <dparsons@debian.org>]

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.

So if I understood it correctly, an exception needs to be added to the
lintian code for "package-depends-on-an-x-font-package" in order to not
trigger on xfonts-encodings.

Thanks,
Drew

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (990, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.16
Locale: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages lintian depends on:
ii  binutils             2.16.1cvs20060413-1 The GNU assembler, linker and bina
ii  diffstat             1.41-1              produces graph of changes introduc
ii  dpkg-dev             1.13.18             package building tools for Debian
ii  file                 4.17-1              Determines file type using "magic"
ii  gettext              0.14.5-2            GNU Internationalization utilities
ii  intltool-debian      0.34.2+20060415     Help i18n of RFC822 compliant conf
ii  libparse-debianchang 1.0-1               parse Debian changelogs and output
ii  man-db               2.4.3-3             The on-line manual pager
ii  perl [libdigest-md5- 5.8.8-4             Larry Wall's Practical Extraction 

lintian recommends no packages.

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