On Thu, 2007-06-07 at 18:12 +0200, Bill Allombert wrote: > Package: fontconfig-config > Version: 2.4.2-1.2 > Severity: important > > Hello Keith, > > fontconfig-config Depends on '...|msttcorefonts' which is in contrib, which > sort of violate Debian policy 2.2.1.
Hmm. Fontconfig does need some fonts though, or it's not very useful. The packages listed are those which provide "reasonable" fonts and you need only install one of them to use the library. I read 2.2.1 as saying that a package must work even when packages outside of main are not available, and the current configuration satisfies that at least. Now that we do have a reasonable selection of DFSG fonts, it may, however, be a reasonable time to remove the suggestion that msttcorefonts would be a good thing to install. > > This also cause a major dependency loop with cdebconf: > > cdebconf :Depends: libcairo2 (>= 1.4.0), libgtk-directfb-2.0-0 (>= > 2.10.3), libgtk2.0-0 (>= 2.10.3), libpango1.0-0 (>= 1.16.4) > fontconfig :Depends: libfontconfig1 (>= 2.4.0), fontconfig-config > fontconfig-config :Depends: msttcorefonts > libcairo2 :Depends: libfontconfig1 (>= 2.4.0) > libfontconfig1 :Depends: fontconfig-config (= 2.4.2-1.2) > libgtk-directfb-2.0-0 :Depends: libgtk2.0-0 (= 2.10.12-2), libcairo2 > (>= 1.4.0), libpango1.0-0 (>= 1.16.4) > libgtk2.0-0 :Depends: libcairo2 (>= 1.4.0), libfontconfig1 (>= 2.4.0), > libpango1.0-0 (>= 1.16.4) > libpango1.0-0 :Depends: libpango1.0-common (>= 1.16.4-1), libcairo2 > (>= 1.4.0), libfontconfig1 (>= 2.4.0), libxft2 (>> 2.1.1) > libpango1.0-common :Depends: fontconfig (>= 2.1.91) > libxft2 :Depends: libfontconfig1 (>= 2.4.0) > msttcorefonts :Depends: cdebconf (>= 0.39) I guess the question is whether this chain can be broken somehow. Do any other font packages depend on cdebconf? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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