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

[Protesilaos Stavrou]

Markus Koschany <apo at debian.org> writes:

> 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

Dear Markus,

Thank you for the clarification!

All the best,
Protesilaos