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Bug#696385: RFS: astromenace/1.3.1+ds-1 [ITP] -- hardcore 3D space shooter with spaceship upgrade possibilities



Hi Boris,

In the rules file for astromenace data, you list fonts in
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-liberation/, but the files there are
symlinks to files in /usr/share/fonts/truetype/liberation/. The symlinks
are provided by a compatility package which is not listed in your
build-dependencies, so building fails in a clean chroot. Can you fix that?

There is a more serious problem. You copy font files which end-up
(AFAIU) in gamedata.vfs. You therefore need to abide by the
redistribution terms of the license of those fonts. The Debian way of
insuring that in a generic manner (for DFSG-free material) would be to
list the font packages in Built-Using. This ensures that the user can
get the source for whatever ended-up in the binary package.

The problem here is that astromenace-data is not in main but in
non-free. I'm not sure that the Built-Using mechanism is sufficient to
ensure that the source package for the fonts remain in the archive. Can
you check that on -devel or -legal?

Else I see two solutions:

 - copy (part of) the font source packages in astromenace-data (I didn't
check: if the ttf files are their own source, you only need to copy them
and amend debian/copyright);

 - pack gamedata.vfs on the end-user system to avoid redistribution.

Kind regards, Thibaut.

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