[Pkg-fonts-devel] Bug#726016: ttf-dejavu-extra: "Dummy trasitional package" has real fonts

[Kent Overstreet]

Package: ttf-dejavu-extra
Version: 2.33+svn2514-3
Severity: normal


$ dpkg -l ttf-dejavu-extra
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name                    Version          Architecture     Description
+++-=======================-================-================-====================================================
ii  ttf-dejavu-extra        2.33+svn2514-3   all              transitional dummy package

The package is also in the oldlibs section, which is highly annoying
when using deborphan

$ dpkg -L ttf-dejavu-extra

/.
/usr
/usr/share
/usr/share/doc
/usr/share/doc/ttf-dejavu-extra
/usr/share/doc/ttf-dejavu-extra/changelog.Debian.gz
/usr/share/doc/ttf-dejavu-extra/copyright
/usr/share/doc/ttf-dejavu-extra/changelog.gz
/usr/share/fonts
/usr/share/fonts/truetype
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-dejavu
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-dejavu/DejaVuSans-BoldOblique.ttf
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-dejavu/DejaVuSerif-BoldItalic.ttf
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-dejavu/DejaVuSansCondensed-Bold.ttf
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-dejavu/DejaVuSerifCondensed-Bold.ttf
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-dejavu/DejaVuSans-Oblique.ttf
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-dejavu/DejaVuSerifCondensed-BoldItalic.ttf
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-dejavu/DejaVuSansMono-Oblique.ttf
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-dejavu/DejaVuSansCondensed-BoldOblique.ttf
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-dejavu/DejaVuSans-ExtraLight.ttf
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-dejavu/DejaVuSansCondensed-Oblique.ttf
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-dejavu/DejaVuSansMono-BoldOblique.ttf
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-dejavu/DejaVuSerifCondensed-Italic.ttf
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-dejavu/DejaVuSansCondensed.ttf
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-dejavu/DejaVuSerifCondensed.ttf
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-dejavu/DejaVuSerif-Italic.ttf

That doesn't look right...

-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.11.0 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages ttf-dejavu-extra depends on:
ii  fonts-dejavu-extra  2.33+svn2514-3

ttf-dejavu-extra recommends no packages.

ttf-dejavu-extra suggests no packages.

-- no debconf information