Hi Andy > Sent: Sunday, February 13, 2022 at 9:14 PM > From: "Andrew M.A. Cater" <amaca...@einval.com> > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: Uninstalling a package removes other essential packages: What is > the best course of action? > > Stella (and others) > > This is apparently a long standing bug from pango1.0 > > Debian bug #565500 > > and has been outstanding for a decade or so.
And why has the decade-old bug not been resolved, may I ask? Won't it pose a security risk such as in escalation of root privileges? > Thai poses interesting font, > formatting and display properties - if you're not Thai, it doesn't matter > to you, but, as you can see it's fairly well embedded into various > libraries. I wonder who embed Thai fonts and code in the first place.. > It's about as relevant to you as the fact that the Debian installer supports > several languages: if you don't use them in install and set up the locales > they're essentially irrelevant but are there for the convenience of people > who need them. Indeed, I don't use non-English language versions during install and/or set up Thai-specific locales but libthai still ends up in my installed system. My concern is whether libthai poses a security risk to Debian users. Best regards. Stella
