Bug#907725: Fwd: Appropriate Section for PCF Fonts
Chris,
On Mon, Oct 8, 2018 at 9:41 AM Chris Lamb <lamby@debian.org> wrote:
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> Paul,
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> > [..]
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> Unfortunately I have very little insight or input to share on fonts or
> sections more generally in Debian so I will just have to leave this up
> to someone else. Apologies that I could not make progress here.
All's well that ends well. I know now that the status quo is just
fine with my package.
> (I do somehow doubt a mass bug filing would be really appropriate or
> welcome, mind you.
I'm sure many facing the business end of a mass bug filing would find
displeasure with it. :-) I expected that would be the least popular
option. But IMHO I felt that if it was a bug, there should be a bug
filing against my package, and if it was not a bug, then the lintian
message should probably be removed.
> Did you consider "fixing" Lintian instead?)
Indeed I did, but I was not sure how to approach the issue properly,
so I posed the question on debian-policy thinking that might be the
best place to start[1]. I only received one response, which indicated
that section assignment was within the purview of the FTP Masters[2],
so then I followed up with an email to them. In retrospect, I have
learned by seeing how Russ phrased this bug report. Chalk one more up
for experience...
> Again, sorry I can't be of more help.
Actually, this bug that Russ filed is being resolved by taking two of
the actions that I asked about in the debian-policy mailing: the
lintian message will be removed, and "fonts" will be removed from the
web page description of the "x11" section, so that certainly helps.
Note, however, that there _are_ a few "xfonts-*" fonts in the "x11"
section. If you and the rest of the FTP Team agrees, I suppose you
could change the lintian message to encourage those packages to set
their d/control section to "fonts".
Sorry I did not notice this bug until just before it was to be
archived. I only saw it while searching to see if another bug had
been filed about something else in lintian (concerning
"wrong-path-for-interpreter" with the relaxed 4.2.1 policy), and in
fact that bug was already filed by someone else and already closed
(#908350).
Thank you for your detailed responses,
Paul Hardy
[1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-policy/2018/06/msg00098.html
[2] https://lists.debian.org/debian-policy/2018/06/msg00099.html
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