Hi Russ,
On Sun, 06 Oct 2019 11:42:20 -0700, Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> wrote:
> 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?
Is the following suitable?
Regards,
Stephen
From d5895ca185fa1d678a098697d9e1c601c84f45dd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Stephen Kitt <skitt@debian.org>
Date: Mon, 7 Oct 2019 21:09:52 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Allow strong dependencies on X font packages
The X server shipped in Debian no longer supports remote retrieval of
fonts from an X font server, so it no longer makes sense to forbid
packages from strongly depending on X font packages. On the contrary,
since local fonts are now the only way for an X program to obtain its
fonts, packages which require specific fonts to operate should depend
on the corresponding font package. (This is already common practice
for non-X font packages.)
Closes: #941803
Signed-off-by: Stephen Kitt <skitt@debian.org>
---
policy/ch-customized-programs.rst | 17 +++++++++--------
1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
diff --git a/policy/ch-customized-programs.rst b/policy/ch-customized-programs.rst
index dbba4fc..dfe6ce4 100644
--- a/policy/ch-customized-programs.rst
+++ b/policy/ch-customized-programs.rst
@@ -380,11 +380,10 @@ themselves.
1. Fonts of any type supported by the X Window System must be in a
separate binary package from any executables, libraries, or
documentation (except that specific to the fonts shipped, such as
- their license information). If one or more of the fonts so packaged
- are necessary for proper operation of the package with which they
- are associated the font package may be Recommended; if the fonts
- merely provide an enhancement, a Suggests relationship may be used.
- Packages must not Depend on font packages. [#]_
+ their license information). Packages which require one or more of
+ the fonts thus packaged should Depend on the font package; if the
+ fonts merely provide an enhancement, a Recommends or Suggests
+ relationship may be used. [#]_
2. BDF fonts must be converted to PCF fonts with the ``bdftopcf``
utility (available in the ``xfonts-utils`` package, ``gzip``\ ped,
@@ -617,9 +616,11 @@ installed in ``/usr/share/man/man6``.
Window System, however, must abide by this font policy.
.. [#]
- This is because the X server may retrieve fonts from the local file
- system or over the network from an X font server; the Debian package
- system is empowered to deal only with the local file system.
+ In the past, the X server could retrieve fonts from the local file
+ system or over the network from an X font server, so packages were
+ forbidden from declaring a Depends relationship with font
+ packages. This is no longer the case: the X font server shipped in
+ Debian no longer supports remote font retrieval.
.. [#]
Note that this mechanism is not the same as using app-defaults;
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