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

[Wichert Akkerman <wichert@wiggy.net>]

Previously Robert Millan wrote:
> 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.

And what about people using a remote X server and don't need local
fonts? Just use a Recommends.

Wichert.

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