Bug#941803: debian-policy: dependencies on font packages
Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org> writes:
> I don't think this change is good as-is. The "don't depend on X font
> packages" is still very much relevant, for applications that use the
> "traditional" X font system, where the X server loads the fonts. The X
> server can still be on a different machine from the client.
Argh, you are of course entirely correct, so I think this change may be
wrong. I just tested and indeed traditional bitmap fonts are still loaded
from the X server, not from the client. I had thought I'd tested that
before but tested it incorrectly.
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <https://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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