Bug#912846: grub2: stop depending on ttf-dejavu-core

Steve McIntyre steve at einval.com
Fri May 22 16:56:20 BST 2020


On Fri, May 22, 2020 at 03:59:55PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
>On Fri, May 22, 2020 at 04:30:16PM +0200, Fabian Greffrath wrote:
>> The ttf-dejavu-core package has been a transitional package for 7 years
>> (!) now and its removal is going to happen with the next package
>> upload, which will be anytime soon. Please adjust your package's build-
>> dependencies to fonts-dejavu-core and add the corresponding search path
>> to configure.ac. I have already prepared a patch for the latter.
>
>Hi - thanks for the patch.  I expect I can apply this, but could you
>please also send it upstream (grub-devel at gnu.org)?  I don't see a reason
>it couldn't be applied there, and it would make ongoing maintenance
>easier.

Ah, I've just taken the change and pushed to git...

-- 
Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.                                steve at einval.com
  Getting a SCSI chain working is perfectly simple if you remember that there
  must be exactly three terminations: one on one end of the cable, one on the
  far end, and the goat, terminated over the SCSI chain with a silver-handled
  knife whilst burning *black* candles. --- Anthony DeBoer



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