On Sat, 26 Sep 2026 at 21:33:25 +0200, Holger Wansing wrote:
Simon McVittie <[email protected]> wrote (Thu, 24 Sep 2026 14:44:52 +0100):
How about moving it so it's installed as an example rather than a
production executable, and reducing its Depends to Suggests, like the
attached patch?
This would take the RC-buggy/unmaintained libwx-perl out of
debian-installer's recursive dependencies, and I believe it would no
longer be a key package as a result.
What to do with the manpage [1] then?
Should that be removed as well?
I don't know - maybe? In the patch I proposed, I went for the minimal
change of just moving the executable out of the way, leaving its man
page available to the man(1) command. If maintainers would prefer to
move the man page as well (untested additional patch below) then that
would also be fine of course.
Thanks,
smcv
diff --git a/debian/rules b/debian/rules
index 2bb8298..a1f0251 100755
--- a/debian/rules
+++ b/debian/rules
@@ -33,6 +33,7 @@ override_dh_auto_install-arch:
dh_auto_install --builddirectory=src -- PREFIX='$$(DESTDIR)/usr'
dh_auto_install --builddirectory=man -- PREFIX='$$(DESTDIR)/usr'
rm -f debian/tmp/usr/bin/unifont-viewer
+ rm -f debian/tmp/usr/share/man/man1/unifont-viewer.1*
#
# Exclude ChangeLog until dh_installchangelogs is updated,
diff --git a/debian/unifont-bin.examples b/debian/unifont-bin.examples
index b02da63..9576c61 100644
--- a/debian/unifont-bin.examples
+++ b/debian/unifont-bin.examples
@@ -1 +1,2 @@
+man/unifont-viewer.1
src/unifont-viewer
