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

[Mykola Nikishov]

Package: webext-lightbeam
Followup-For: Bug #904933

severity -1 grave
thanks

Axel Beckert <abe at debian.org> writes:

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

Yes, it uses 4 OpenSans-*.ttf fonts. fonts-open-sans already provides
these fonts and is about 2 Mbytes in size.

I've submitted PR https://salsa.debian.org/webext-team/lightbeam/merge_requests/1

> 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?

In my opinion this bug deserves a grave severity - I doubt any user
would install this extension if it will consume 1 Gb of disk space.

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Mykola

Libre/Free Java Software Engineer
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