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Re: Bug#481792: latex-cjk-chinese-arphic: freetype1 deprecation



Norbert Preining wrote:
> > > freetype1 has been in oldlibs for Etch, it has very few reverse deps
> > > left and we'll try to phase it out now.
> 
> Only because there are not reverse depends that does not mean that the
> package is useless. 
> 
> Debian - at the end - should be for *USERS* not for internal dependency
> checking. If the package is useful for users, so let it be there.
> 
> If you want to remove it, provide a replacement.

If you need these scripts, please build them against against current Freetype
(and include them in freetype2-demos). We can't keep every old package just
because people don't adapt code to current versions. Our archive is already
too hard to manage.

Cheers,
        Moritz


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