Bug#515689: duplicate-font-file X also in ttf-aenigma, bad advice?

[Raphael Geissert <atomo64+debian@gmail.com>]

Thijs Kinkhorst wrote:
[...]
> W: serendipity: duplicate-font-file
> usr/share/serendipity/www/plugins/serendipity_event_spamblock/chumbly.ttf
> also in ttf-aenigma
[...] 
> 
> This may sound fair at first, but since the ttf-aenigma package has an
> installed size of 25 MB and my package needs just that one font, so
> depending on ttf-aenigma does not seem like such a good idea afterall.

Sounds fair to skip such font packages. What would you consider a "big"
fonts package? >4MBs?

If the others agree we could even add a check for font packages bigger than
that size suggesting a split up with severity: wishlist, certainty:
possible.

> 
> Since the package is that huge, perhaps Lintian should not be encouraging
> maintainers to start depending on it when they have just one font from it
> in their packages. Or do you think I should rather add an override
> instead?
> 
> 

Cheers,
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Raphael Geissert - Debian Maintainer
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