[Pkg-mozext-maintainers] Bug#904933: webext-lightbeam: Pulls in 1 GB of texlive-fonts-extra

Axel Beckert abe at debian.org
Sun Jul 29 18:19:23 BST 2018


Package: webext-lightbeam
Version: 2.1.0-2
Severity: minor

Hi,

webext-lightbeam pulls in texlive-fonts-extra which has 1 GB of
installed size. Is this hard dependency really _required_?

I mean, why should a browser extension which seems to have no relation
to TeX install 1 GB of fonts which are considered "extra" from TeX
Live's point of view?

If webext-lightbeam uses a single font out of that package, I'd suggest
to do one of the following:

* Downgrade the dependency to Suggests (or at least Recommends) as fonts
  in web applications are usually just "nice to have".
* Look for a _much_ smaller replacement font.

TIA!

-- System Information:
Debian Release: buster/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (600, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'buildd-unstable'), (110, 'experimental'), (1, 'experimental-debug'), (1, 'buildd-experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 4.17.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages webext-lightbeam depends on:
ii  texlive-fonts-extra  2018.20180725-1

Versions of packages webext-lightbeam recommends:
ii  firefox      61.0.1-1
ii  firefox-esr  52.9.0esr-1

webext-lightbeam suggests no packages.

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