Bug#907725: Fwd: Appropriate Section for PCF Fonts

[Paul Hardy <unifoundry@gmail.com>]

Chris,

Thank you for dealing with bug #907725 ("xfonts packages are not using
the x11 section in practice").  I was told that it was up to the FTP
Masters, so I wrote the below email to them in July.  I have not yet
received a response, but looking at the NEW queue it is obvious how
swamped they are so I wasn't expecting a rapid response.

Sincerely,


Paul Hardy

---------- Forwarded message ---------
From: Paul Hardy <unifoundry@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, Jul 30, 2018 at 6:40 AM
Subject: Appropriate Section for PCF Fonts
To: <ftpmaster@debian.org>


Dear FTP Masters,

I am preparing a new upload of my Unifont package, which includes a
PCF font.  I get a lintian warning that the PCF font is not in the "X
Window System" section.  The sid section page
(https://packages.debian.org/sid/) mentions fonts as one thing
appropriate for that section.

There is also a "fonts" section of course, and that is where all of
the Unifont fonts are now (and have been for over 10 years).

There are a lot of PCF fonts in the fonts section, and it looks like
almost none in the "X Window" section.  Any font today can be used by
more than the X Window System, so my inclination is to keep PCF fonts
in the "fonts" section.

To clarify things with font maintainers, can you either have a mass
bug filing against all PCF fonts that are in the fonts section, or
remove "fonts" from the list of package types suitable for the "X
Window" section.  And if you remove fonts from the "X Window" section
list, the current lintian warning (when a PCF font is in the "fonts"
section) should be removed.

If you want to file a mass bug report, this would probably be a good
time, as it would give font package maintainers time to upload new
versions before the buster freeze.

Thank you,


Paul Hardy