[Pkg-mozext-maintainers] Bug#929475: "webext-privacy-badger" should only recommend "fonts-open-sans"

[Markus Koschany]

On Fri, 24 May 2019 11:33:04 +0300 Protesilaos Stavrou
<info at protesilaos.com> wrote:
> Package: webext-privacy-badger
> Version: 2019.2.19-1
> Severity: wishlist
> 
> Dear Maintainer,
> 
> I believe the package "webext-privacy-badger" in Buster should not 
> depend on "fonts-open-sans".  The latter can be defined as a recommended 
> package instead.
> 
> Looking at Privacy Badger's source code (via `apt download`) it appears 
> that "Open Sans" is only used on "firstRun.html".  That font is defined 
> in <package>/usr/share/webext/privacy-badger/skin/css/firstRun.css
> 
> A fallback "sans-serif" font is specified as well, meaning that the text 
> will be displayed properly even without package "fonts-open-sans".
> 
> Thank you for your attention!
> 
> Best regards,
> Protesilaos

The open-sans fonts is used by upstream and shipped with the upstream
sources. We just replace it with a system fonts to reduce the fonts
duplication in Debian. The intention is really to display the firstRun
page with this fonts and not with something else and to ensure that we
have to depend on fonts-open-sans. This is not a bug.

Regards,

Markus Koschany



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