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

[Jonas Smedegaard]

Quoting Nicolas Spalinger (2014-05-06 13:45:44)
> 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?

I believe this is best:

  * Use "Depends:" generally, and keep the list up-to-date.
  * Use "Recommendends:" if available only on a subset of Debian 
    architectures.

 - Jonas

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