Bug#743897: gargoyle-free: please remove unneeded fonts-* dependencies

[beuc at debian.org]

On Tue, Apr 08, 2014 at 10:00:50AM +0800, Paul Wise wrote:
> Package: gargoyle-free
> Severity: wishlist
> 
> As far as I can tell, gargoyle-free uses fontconfig to find font paths
> at runtime. As a result it doesn't need to depend on specific fonts
> since fontconfig will return the default fonts if the asked for fonts
> are not available on the system. Please drop the fonts packages from the
> gargoyle-free dependencies.

That's the second mail I receive this week about fonts dependencies
(previous was questionning the need to depend on 2 rather than 1).
Is there anything going on about fonts these days?
I don't really understand why we spend energy on this.

Anyway, selecting *specific* *free* fonts for Gargoyle was discussed
at length with upstream at the time I contributed the fontconfig
support, and they're pretty concerned about what fonts are used,
especially since it can break a game rendering/layout.

So let's keep the specific font dependencies.

-- 
Sylvain