Bug#142199: debian-policy: packages should be allowed to depend on an X font

[Robert Millan <zeratul2@wanadoo.es>]

Package: debian-policy
Severity: important

Section 12.8.5 of Policy says that no package may depend on an X font.

However, this is in contradiction with 7.2 which says that packages
which require another package to "provide a significant amount
of functionality" should depend on that.

I maintain the bochs-x package, which is absolutely useless when
the xfonts-bochs package is not installed. Not depending on it
brings trouble, for example, when apt ignores the recommends.

See bug #142059

cheers,

-- 
Robert Millan


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