Bug#261496: tetex-extra: replaces "pandora", which is a gimp-plugin

[Frank Küster <frank@debian.org>]

Hilmar Preusse <hille42@web.de> wrote:

> tags 261496 pending
> stop
>
> Hi,
>
>> Tetex-extra replaces the "pandora" package, but this is a
>> gimp-plugin to create panoramas. I don't think that tetex-extra can
>> provide this functionality and so you can't install both packages
>> at the same time.
>> 
> Thanks! As the pandora-fonts will be removed on next upload of
> tetex-extra (license) it is nonsense to declare that conflict.

That's right. Thomas, you should however be aware that we do not replace
pandora just because we find it funny, but rather because there used to
be a package with that name, providing fonts for use with TeX. And it
might well be that this package wants to resurrect - the fonts have been
removed because of a non-free license. But if they get a new license,
shortly after we had a new upstream release of teTeX, it might be years
before a new teTeX version with the fonts enters Debian. Therefore it is
quite likely that someone might want to package them separately.

Perhaps it is better to pick a less generic name (I also wouldn't advice
this name for a new font package), but rather something like
pandora-gimp-plugin. 

Regards, Frank

-- 
Frank Küster, Biozentrum der Univ. Basel
Abt. Biophysikalische Chemie