Bug#838741: freeorion-data: should depend on ‘fonts-roboto’

[Markus Koschany]

Control: reassign -1 fonts-roboto-hinted
Control: forcemerge 838199 838741
Control: retitle 838199 fonts-roboto-hinted should not use conflicts

On 24.09.2016 09:20, Ben Finney wrote:
> Package: freeorion-data
> Version: 0.4.6~RC1-1
> Severity: normal
> 
> The dependency on ‘fonts-roboto-unhinted’ causes a conflict with
> ‘fonts-roboto’ (which in turn depend on ‘fonts-roboto-hinted’).
> 
> This means the package is uninstallable together with ‘fonts-roboto’.
> This does not seem like the right solution.
> 
> Can this dependency instead be relaxed to ‘fonts-roboto’?

Hello,

in my opinion this is a general issue with fonts-roboto-hinted and its
use of Conflicts. I don't see a reason why the -hinted and -unhinted
fonts should conflict with each other since all files are installed into
different directories. Not only FreeOrion is affected but all packages
that try to replace embedded fonts with either one of those included in
the fonts-roboto packages.

Unfortunately I haven't heard anything from the fonts team yet. If they
lack the time to fix this bug, I could prepare a NMU myself.

I will also look into fonts-roboto-hinted and check if it is a good
replacement for the unhinted fonts. But in general I think that the
current dependency on fonts-roboto-unhinted is absolutely sensible.

Regards,

Markus

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