Re: Section for xfonts-foo
On Fri, Jun 29, 2018 at 11:01:05AM -0700, Paul Hardy wrote:
> The latest version of lintian gives a warning about packages named
> "xfonts-*" being anywhere but in the "x11" section. This change was
> made in response to bug #878609. The decision for that modification
> seems to have been made based upon the "x11" section description
> including the word "fonts".
>
> Yet Debian Policy does not even say that font packages for the X
> Window System "should" be in the "x11" section (or in any particular
> section for that matter).
As a rule, sections are decided by the FTP masters and not by Debian
policy.
Cheers,
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Bill. <ballombe@debian.org>
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