Package Figlet suggests figfonts which is unavailable

[Mario Splivalo]

Binary package hint: figlet

mario@buntor:~$ sudo apt-get install figlet
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Suggested packages:
  figfonts figfonts-cjk
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  figlet
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/151kB of archives.
After unpacking 913kB of additional disk space will be used.
Selecting previously deselected package figlet.
(Reading database ... 146684 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking figlet (from .../figlet_2.2.2-1_i386.deb) ...
Setting up figlet (2.2.2-1) ...

mario@buntor:~$ sudo apt-get install figfonts
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Package figfonts is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source
However the following packages replace it:
  figlet
E: Package figfonts has no installation candidate

This is on Ubuntu 7.04.

[Shawn McMahon (smcmahon)]

This still happens in Gutsy:

smcmahon@averatec:~$ sudo apt-get -s install figfonts
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Package figfonts is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source
However the following packages replace it:
  figlet
E: Package figfonts has no installation candidate
smcmahon@averatec:~$ sudo apt-get -s install figlet
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Suggested packages:
  figfonts figfonts-cjk
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  figlet
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

[Miroslav Sabljić (civija)]

Here is a debdiff that removes Suggests field and figfonts entry. I'm subscribing u-u-s.

[Daniel Holbach (dholbach)]

Uploaded. Thanks for the patch. It'll sit in the queue for a bit now.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package figlet - 2.2.2-1ubuntu1

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figlet (2.2.2-1ubuntu1) hardy; urgency=low

  * Removed Suggests field from debian/control, closes LP: #133367
  * Modify Maintainer value to match the DebianMaintainerField
    specification.

 -- Miroslav Sabljic <email address hidden> Mon, 17 Mar 2008 15:07:19 +0100