[SCM] Debian package checker branch, master, updated. 2.2.5-46-g477283b

["Russ Allbery" <rra@debian.org>]

The following commit has been merged in the master branch:
commit 7c21bade4b57fef73774ccdde36e94eafdc066a9
Author: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
Date:   Sat Feb 21 15:27:54 2009 -0800

    Improve duplicate-font-file advice for huge font packages
    
    * checks/files{,.desc}:
      + [RA] Offer advice for duplicate-font-file for when the font package
        is huge.  Thanks, Thijs Kinkhorst and Paul Wise.  (Closes: #515689)

diff --git a/checks/files.desc b/checks/files.desc
index 8a15100..522cce0 100644
--- a/checks/files.desc
+++ b/checks/files.desc
@@ -947,10 +947,18 @@ Tag: duplicate-font-file
 Severity: normal
 Certainty: possible
 Info: This package appears to include a font file that is already provided
- by another package in Debian.  It should instead depend on the relevant
- font package.  If the application in this package loads the font file by
- name, you may need to include a symlink pointing to the file name of the
- font in its Debian package.
+ by another package in Debian.  Ideally should instead depend on the
+ relevant font package.  If the application in this package loads the font
+ file by name, you may need to include a symlink pointing to the file name
+ of the font in its Debian package.
+ .
+ Sometimes the font package containing the font is huge and you only need
+ one font.  In that case, you have a few options: modify the package (in
+ conjunction with upstream) to use libfontconfig to find the font that you
+ prefer but fall back on whatever installed font is available, ask that
+ the font package be split apart into packages of a more reasonable size,
+ or add an override and be aware of the duplication when new versions of
+ the font are released.
 
 Tag: icon-size-and-directory-name-mismatch
 Severity: normal
diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 49bf060..664b477 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -39,6 +39,8 @@ lintian (2.2.6) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
     + [ADB] Lower the certainty of the embedded-{javascript,php}-library
       tags to "possible" as they trigger purely on filenames and not
       content.  (Closes: #515690)
+    + [RA] Offer advice for duplicate-font-file for when the font package
+      is huge.  Thanks, Thijs Kinkhorst and Paul Wise.  (Closes: #515689)
   * checks/scripts:
     + [RA] Make static regexes global to avoid recreating them for each
       file we scan.  Patch from Raphael Geissert.

-- 
Debian package checker