On 29-Nov-2017, Johannes Schauer wrote: > Source: octicons > Version: 4.4.0-1 > Severity: serious
The justification for this bug severity as “serious” is, IMO, that it
constitutes a violation of Policy §2.2.1:
[…] the packages in ‘main’ […] must not require or recommend a
package outside of main for compilation or execution […]
This package has an undeclared build dependency: the compiler for its
font files.
That the package successfully builds is because that undeclared
dependency is circumvented, by including the non-source form of the
work in the source package. (Whether this violates Policy §4.13 is a
different matter.)
So, this bug should be resolved by:
* Removing the package until its true build dependencies (including
the build dependency to compile the fonts from source) are all in
Debian.
* Working with others to get those build dependencies into Debian.
* Updating the package build rules to build the packages from the
actual source.
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