Bug#941803: debian-policy: dependencies on font packages
Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org> writes:
> On Sat, 2019-10-05 at 21:44:25 +0200, Stephen Kitt wrote:
>> It’s common for packages to strongly depend on non-X fonts they need;
>> see for example the reverse dependencies of fonts-dejavu. While lintian
>> objects to X font depencencies
>> (<https://lintian.debian.org/tags/package-depends-on-an-x-font-package.html>),
>> it doesn’t have anything to say about non-X fonts (rightly so).
>>
>> Wouldn’t it make sense to relax the constraints on X font
>> dependencies?
> Looks like it to me, yes.
Thank you for raising this, Stephen! I use remote display of X
applications all the time and noticed a while back that fonts were being
loaded on the local machine instead of on the machine hosting the X
server, but never had a chance to dig into what had changed.
This change looks right to me as well. Do you have time to propose a
diff?
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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