Bug#907725: xfonts packages are not using the x11 section in practice
Package: lintian
Version: 2.5.99
Severity: normal
In #878609, xfonts packages were reclassified to be in the x11 section,
resulting in the wrong-section-according-to-package-name tag being
issued if they go to the fonts section. This was based on the text in
https://packages.debian.org/en/sid/, namely:
X Window System software
X servers, libraries, fonts, window managers, terminal emulators and
many related applications.
However, this is not what (essentially) anyone does:
wanderer:~$ grep-aptavail -F Package -s Section -r ^xfonts- | sort | uniq -c
73 Section: fonts
1 Section: non-free/fonts
2 Section: x11
Given that packages.debian.org also says:
Fonts
Font packages.
with no qualifications or exceptions for X fonts, I don't think it makes
sense to tag all of these packages and ask them to change. Given existing
practice in the archive, if anything it seems like it would be better to
standardize the other direction and fix packages.debian.org to remove
"fonts" from the definition of the x11 section. I think this also fits the
general classification rubric of preferring the narrower, less general
section when a package could fall into multiple sections.
(I'm not sure where to report the packages.debian.org bug. Do you know?)
-- System Information:
Debian Release: buster/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 4.17.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
Versions of packages lintian depends on:
ii binutils 2.31.1-4
ii bzip2 1.0.6-9
ii diffstat 1.61-1+b1
ii dpkg 1.19.0.5+b1
ii file 1:5.34-2
ii gettext 0.19.8.1-7
ii intltool-debian 0.35.0+20060710.4
ii libapt-pkg-perl 0.1.34
ii libarchive-zip-perl 1.63-1
ii libclass-accessor-perl 0.51-1
ii libclone-perl 0.39-1
ii libdpkg-perl 1.19.0.5
ii libemail-valid-perl 1.202-1
ii libfile-basedir-perl 0.08-1
ii libipc-run-perl 20180523.0-1
ii liblist-moreutils-perl 0.416-1+b3
ii libparse-debianchangelog-perl 1.2.0-12
ii libtext-levenshtein-perl 0.13-1
ii libtimedate-perl 2.3000-2
ii liburi-perl 1.74-1
ii libxml-simple-perl 2.25-1
ii libyaml-libyaml-perl 0.72+repack-1
ii man-db 2.8.4-2
ii patchutils 0.3.4-2
ii perl [libdigest-sha-perl] 5.26.2-7
ii t1utils 1.41-2
ii xz-utils 5.2.2-1.3
Versions of packages lintian recommends:
pn libperlio-gzip-perl <none>
Versions of packages lintian suggests:
pn binutils-multiarch <none>
ii dpkg-dev 1.19.0.5
ii libhtml-parser-perl 3.72-3+b2
ii libtext-template-perl 1.53-1
-- no debconf information
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