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Re: Octave 4.4 release candidate



On Wed, Apr 25, 2018 at 09:36:05AM -0700, Mike Miller wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 25, 2018 at 12:59:45 +0200, Sébastien Villemot wrote:
> > I […] added a
> > dependency of octave-common on fonts-freefonts-otf (to be sure they are there
> > at runtime if the fallback is needed, let me know if this is not needed).
> 
> I think Recommends is strong enough. It takes either a severely broken
> system configuration, or a user intentionally using a very limited
> Fontconfig configuration, to exercise this case. If fonts-freefont-otf
> is not installed, the user will get error messages and a blank figure.
> 
>     FONTCONFIG_FILE=/dev/null octave
> 
> is the easiest way to test this.
> mike

Thanks, I have downgraded the Depends to a Recommends.

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