Bug#515689: duplicate-font-file X also in ttf-aenigma, bad advice?
Paul,
Could you comment on this from the Debian font team perspective? What's
the right thing to do in a case like this?
Thijs Kinkhorst <thijs@debian.org> writes:
> On my package 'serendipity' I now get the following Lintian warning:
>
> W: serendipity: duplicate-font-file
> usr/share/serendipity/www/plugins/serendipity_event_spamblock/chumbly.ttf
> also in ttf-aenigma
> N:
> N: This package appears to include a font file that is already provided by
> N: another package in Debian. It should instead depend on the relevant font
> N: package. If the application in this package loads the font file by name,
> N: you may need to include a symlink pointing to the file name of the font
> N: in its Debian package.
> N:
> N: Severity: normal, Certainty: possible
> N:
>
> 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.
>
> 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?
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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