[Pkg-fonts-devel] Build-Depends: fontforge-nox | fontforge ?

Paul Wise pabs at debian.org
Tue Feb 1 09:45:15 UTC 2011


On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 5:41 PM, Fabian Greffrath <fabian at greffrath.com> wrote:

> I wonder why most of our font packages that require fontforge's scripting
> capabilities build-depend on the fontforge package (i.e. the full frontend)
> instead of the fontforge-nox package. Maybe we should change the
> Build-Depends from "fontforge" to "fontforge-nox | fontforge" to unburden
> our buildds?

I would guess those Build-Depends were added before fontforge-nox
existed. I agree switching to what you suggest is a good idea.

> Please keep me in the CC, I am not subscribed to this list.

Done.

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pabs

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