Bug#142199: marked as done (debian-policy: packages should be allowed to depend on an X font)
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From: Robert Millan <zeratul2@wanadoo.es>
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Subject: debian-policy: packages should be allowed to depend on an X font
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Package: debian-policy
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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
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On Tue, Apr 09, 2002 at 04:56:25PM +0200, Robert Millan wrote:
> Didn't know about that. Then please document it in section 12.5.8
The Policy Manual is not a FAQ.
Read the xserver-common package description, or the Debian X FAQ in
version 4.1.0-15 of the xfree86-common package.
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