Bug#540425: lintian: package-depends-on-an-x-font-package false positive
Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org> writes:
> xfonts-utils Depends on xfonts-encodings, which triggers the
> package-depends-on-an-x-font-package lintian error. The encodings are
> used by some scripts in xfonts-utils. I'm overriding the error for now,
> but filing this bug in case you think lintian should be changed to
> special-case xfonts-utils or xfonts-encodings (the latter doesn't
> contain actual fonts). If not, feel free to close this bug and I'll
> keep the override.
I had noticed that one as an exception a while back and even added it to
Lintian. Unfortunately, the exception for xfongs-encodings is probably
not very helpful. :)
Will be fixed in the next release.
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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