[Debichem-devel] Bug#567600: Bug#567600: ghemical should depend on xfonts-75dpi

[Nicholas Breen]

On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 12:05:59PM +0900, XU Benda wrote:
> ghemical need courier font to run, or it gives
> 
> (ghemical:25881): GdkGLExt-WARNING **: cannot load PangoFont
> *** ERROR : Can't load font 'courier 12'
> 
> and exits. Installing xfonts-75dpi solves this problem. But it costs me 2 hours to figure it out.
> 
> I suggest make ghemical depend on xfonts-75dpi (or some other font which provides courier).

Packages must not depend on any fonts package[1], it's a serious policy
violation.

xfonts-75dpi and -100dpi are part of the standard X installation ("xorg"
metapackage); it's possible to uninstall them, but that should only be done if
you're running a remote font server.  Any X setup that doesn't provide those
fonts is already broken.


-- 
Nicholas Breen
nbreen at ofb.net


[1] http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-customized-programs.html#s11.8.5