On Tue, Apr 08, 2014 at 10:00:50AM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > Package: gargoyle-free > Severity: wishlist > > As far as I can tell, gargoyle-free uses fontconfig to find font paths > at runtime. As a result it doesn't need to depend on specific fonts > since fontconfig will return the default fonts if the asked for fonts > are not available on the system. Please drop the fonts packages from the > gargoyle-free dependencies.
That's the second mail I receive this week about fonts dependencies (previous was questionning the need to depend on 2 rather than 1). Is there anything going on about fonts these days? I don't really understand why we spend energy on this. Anyway, selecting *specific* *free* fonts for Gargoyle was discussed at length with upstream at the time I contributed the fontconfig support, and they're pretty concerned about what fonts are used, especially since it can break a game rendering/layout. So let's keep the specific font dependencies. -- Sylvain -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
