Re: Policy restriction to depend on font packages

2008-07-16 Thread Eugene V. Lyubimkin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Christian Perrier wrote: > Quoting Eugene V. Lyubimkin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > >> Should I mass-file the bugs or this situation can be resolved through >> different approach? > > > While you're technically right, apparently, I think that this issue >

Re: Policy restriction to depend on font packages

2008-07-16 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Eugene V. Lyubimkin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Should I mass-file the bugs or this situation can be resolved through > different approach? While you're technically right, apparently, I think that this issue should be solved by a discussion to either adapt the policy wrt current practice (fon

Re: Policy restriction to depend on font packages

2008-07-15 Thread Julien Cristau
[dropping -release from Cc] On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 15:11:44 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Rene Engelhard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > ttf-opensymbol comes out of openoffice.org itself (easily checkable) and > > is needed for basic operation. You won't get any bullet in OOos lists > > withou

Re: Policy restriction to depend on font packages

2008-07-15 Thread Miriam Ruiz
2008/7/15 Eugene V. Lyubimkin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Then I searched the Debian archive (in case of TrueType fonts): > > $ grep-aptavail -F Depends "ttf-" -s Package | wc -l > 93 > > $ grep-aptavail \( -F Recommends "ttf-" --or -F Suggests "ttf-" \) > - --and ! -F Depends "ttf-" -s Package | wc -l

Re: Policy restriction to depend on font packages

2008-07-15 Thread Russ Allbery
Rene Engelhard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > ttf-opensymbol comes out of openoffice.org itself (easily checkable) and > is needed for basic operation. You won't get any bullet in OOos lists > without it. Even if you're running an X font server on a different host that is providing that font? Doe

Re: Policy restriction to depend on font packages

2008-07-15 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Eugene V. Lyubimkin] > Should I mass-file the bugs or this situation can be resolved > through different approach? Your message was a bit short on exactly what problem you are trying to solve. How is the font dependency affecting users of the packages? I suspect fontconfig-config work on the f

Re: Policy restriction to depend on font packages

2008-07-15 Thread Rene Engelhard
Hi, Eugene V. Lyubimkin wrote: > Some of them: fontconfig-config, blender, openjdk-6-jre, > openoffice.org-core, vlc. And, as I understand, it leads to 93 bugs of > "serious" severity and yet another pain for release team. ttf-opensymbol comes out of openoffice.org itself (easily checkable) and i

Policy restriction to depend on font packages

2008-07-15 Thread Eugene V. Lyubimkin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi people. Policy 11.8.5.1 says: "If one or more of the fonts so packaged are necessary for proper operation of the package with which they are associated the font package may be Recommended; if the fonts merely provide an enhancement, a Suggests rel