Bug#661363: lintian: [false-positive] missing-dep-for-interpreter, though correctly: fontforge | fontforge-nox

["Adam D. Barratt" <adam@adam-barratt.org.uk>]

On Sun, 2012-02-26 at 18:30 +0100, Martin Erik Werner wrote:
> It seems that lintian does not see the
>  Depends: (...) fontforge-nox | fontforge, (...)
> of the package
>  googlefontdirectory-tools
> correctly, and reports: missing-dep-for-interpreter

As far as I can tell, this is precisely because you've OR-ed the
dependency.  lintian wants fontforge to be installed to satisfy the
dependency, and "fontforge-nox | fontforge" does not fulfil that
requirement, since the -nox branch could be taken.

Does fontforge-nox provide equivalent functionality to fontforge, at
least for scripts?  i.e. if a script has a "#!/usr/bin/fontforge"
shebang, will it work correctly whichever of fontforge or fontforge-nox
is installed?

Regards,

Adam