[Pkg-fonts-devel] open-font-design-toolkit is marked for autoremoval from testing

[Nicolas Spalinger]

On 06/05/14 06:32, Christian PERRIER wrote:
> Quoting Nicolas Spalinger (nicolas_spalinger at sil.org):
>> On 28/04/14 05:39, Debian testing autoremoval watch wrote:
>>> open-font-design-toolkit 1.5 is marked for autoremoval from testing on 2014-05-27
>>>
>>> It (build-)depends on packages with these RC bugs:
>>> 744698: fontmatrix: [fontmatrix] [DFSG] missing source
>>
>> Upstream fontmatrix sources have moved to
>> https://github.com/fontmatrix/fontmatrix
>>
>> Can someone please help prevent this autoremoval?
>
> I'm somehow "tracking" this issue, but the real fix is in the
> fontmatrix package.
>
> I actually wonder whether it is really a good idea to *depend* on
> packages. We should maybe only *recommend* this in order to avoid
> o-f-d-t to be in danger as soon as one of the packages in the toolkit
> is RC-buggy in the distribution.
>
> So, the fix might be "s/Depends:/Recommends:"


Since this is intended to be a meta-package (an empty package which 
pulls in various other packages) what would work best?

Thanks,

-- 
Nicolas