[Pkg-fonts-devel] Policy on dependencies regarding defoma, x-ttcidfonts-conf, fontconfig ?

[Christian Perrier]

Quoting "Arne Götje (高盛華)" (arne at linux.org.tw):
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> Hi list,
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> it came to my attention, that the ttf packages in debian all have
> different dependency handling about the defoma, x-ttcidfonts-conf and
> fontconfig packages.
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> My question would be, should we make a policy on how the dependencies
> for all ttf packages should look like regarding to these three packages?

Definitely. Remember that setting a general policy for font packages
was one of the goals I did put in this gorup....which hasn't happened
yet. Probably needs someone to take the lead for this.


> And should we make sure that all ttf packages in etch follow this policy
> to make sure that as many applications as possible can use those fonts?

This is probably late to enforce this. We can make this policy a
suggestion for etch an try to enforce it for etch+1



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