Bug#436729: texlive-fonts-recommended: short description of urw fonts unhelpful in package dsc

[Frank Küster <frank@debian.org>]

Bernhard Reiter <bernhard@intevation.de> wrote:

> Package: texlive-fonts-recommended
> Version: 2007-10
> Severity: minor
>
>
> apt-cache show texlive-fonts-recommended shows unhelpful short entries
> for the urw font packages. Examples:
>
>   adobeuro -- Macro package for TeX (the most popular).
>   avantgar -- Macro package for TeX (the most popular).
>
>   helvetic -- Macro package for TeX (the most popular).
>
> They have probably been automatically generated somehow.

Thanks for reporting, and sorry for the late reply.  I'm not sure what
the descriptions should look like.  These packages don't contain macro
packages, only font files (tfm in the case of adobeuro, a complete set
of Type1 fonts with tfm, vf and fd files for the others).  

Maybe the name should mention the actual font this provides, e.g. URW
Nimbus Sans L for helvetic.

And as far as upstream is concerned, I'd really hope we are able to
somehow clear up the psfonts mess and have one package urw-base35...

Regards, Frank
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Frank Küster
Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)