[Debian GNUstep maintainers] Bug#369896: gnustep-back-common should not depend on ttf-bitstream-vera solely.

[Hubert Chan]

On Fri, 02 Jun 2006 08:46:05 -0400, Matej Cepl said:

> Sorry, I wasn't clear enough -- not the point was not how to run
> GNUStep with DeJaVu, I know I can do that. The point was that I wanted
> to get rid of Bitstream Vera fonts (because I really have no use for
> them) and they are kept in my system only because gnustep-back-common
> depends on them.

OK, I see.  gnustep-back-common needs to depend on the Bitstream Vera
fonts because it provides nfont files that refer specifically to those
fonts.  When gnustep-back gets defoma support, the use of those nfont
files will be deprecated, and I'm planning to remove them after etch is
released.

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