pango should drop the recommends on x-ttcidfont-conf
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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pango1.0 (Debian) |
Fix Released
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Unknown
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pango1.0 (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Medium
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
pango is one of the few packages still holding defoma in main (and on the CDs). The reason is a Recommends: on x-ttcidfont-conf, which is a supplementary package to pull truetype and CID fonts into the X font path. pango's Recommends is obsolete - it was added in order to support management of a config file that no longer exists at all, and Debian has dropped the Recommends.
Dropping x-ttcidfont-conf itself from the CD *may* have unintended consequences, in that the X server has /var/lib/
/usr/
Nevertheless, Debian has dropped x-ttcidfont-conf entirely in testing and unstable, and no one appears to be screaming. So I think this is still safe to get done for 12.04. In any case, we know that the default desktop is *not* using server-side fonts for its rendering, it's using client-side fonts *via pango* (and fontconfig), so pulling this in as a standard dependency in order to make more fonts available server-side really doesn't seem to make any sense.
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Related branches
Changed in pango1.0 (Ubuntu): | |
importance: | Undecided → Medium |
Changed in pango1.0 (Debian): | |
status: | Unknown → Fix Released |
This bug was fixed in the package pango1.0 - 1.30.0-0ubuntu2
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pango1.0 (1.30.0-0ubuntu2) precise-proposed; urgency=low
* Drop spurious Recommends: on x-ttcidfont-conf; this was added as an
option for managing a config file that no longer exists, and nothing
uses x-ttcidfont-conf or defoma any more for managing fonts. LP: #983274.
-- Steve Langasek <email address hidden> Mon, 16 Apr 2012 10:40:26 -0700