On Thu, Jun 07, 2007 at 01:25:34PM -0700, Keith Packard wrote: > On Thu, 2007-06-07 at 18:12 +0200, Bill Allombert wrote: > > Package: fontconfig-config > > Version: 2.4.2-1.2 > > Severity: important > > > > Hello Keith, > > > > fontconfig-config Depends on '...|msttcorefonts' which is in contrib, which > > sort of violate Debian policy 2.2.1. > > Hmm. Fontconfig does need some fonts though, or it's not very useful. > The packages listed are those which provide "reasonable" fonts and you > need only install one of them to use the library. I read 2.2.1 as saying > that a package must work even when packages outside of main are not > available, and the current configuration satisfies that at least. > > Now that we do have a reasonable selection of DFSG fonts, it may, > however, be a reasonable time to remove the suggestion that > msttcorefonts would be a good thing to install. > > > This also cause a major dependency loop with cdebconf: > > > > cdebconf :Depends: libcairo2 (>= 1.4.0), libgtk-directfb-2.0-0 (>= > > 2.10.3), libgtk2.0-0 (>= 2.10.3), libpango1.0-0 (>= 1.16.4) > > fontconfig :Depends: libfontconfig1 (>= 2.4.0), fontconfig-config > > fontconfig-config :Depends: msttcorefonts > > libcairo2 :Depends: libfontconfig1 (>= 2.4.0) > > libfontconfig1 :Depends: fontconfig-config (= 2.4.2-1.2) > > libgtk-directfb-2.0-0 :Depends: libgtk2.0-0 (= 2.10.12-2), libcairo2 > > (>= 1.4.0), libpango1.0-0 (>= 1.16.4) > > libgtk2.0-0 :Depends: libcairo2 (>= 1.4.0), libfontconfig1 (>= > > 2.4.0), libpango1.0-0 (>= 1.16.4) > > libpango1.0-0 :Depends: libpango1.0-common (>= 1.16.4-1), libcairo2 > > (>= 1.4.0), libfontconfig1 (>= 2.4.0), libxft2 (>> 2.1.1) > > libpango1.0-common :Depends: fontconfig (>= 2.1.91) > > libxft2 :Depends: libfontconfig1 (>= 2.4.0) > > msttcorefonts :Depends: cdebconf (>= 0.39) > > I guess the question is whether this chain can be broken somehow. Do any > other font packages depend on cdebconf?
Yes. This is because msttcorefonts is an installer package actually. Cheers, Bill. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
