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Package: vrms
Version: 1.27
Severity: wishlist
Hi!
fonts-ubuntu is shipped by default on Ubuntu systems. It has significant
reverse dependencies and cannot be uninstalled easily.
Debian considers fonts-ubuntu to be “non-free”, while Canonical
disagrees. But vrms lists fonts-ubuntu as non-free also on Ubuntu systems.
Recently I have seen two Ask Ubuntu questions where users have run vrms,
found fonts-ubuntu to be non-free, and tried to uninstall the package:
* https://askubuntu.com/q/1292336
* https://askubuntu.com/q/1292751
This situation is unfortunate. Given the difference in opinion, I would
suggest that vrms does not count fonts-ubuntu as non-free when built on
Ubuntu systems.
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Thanks!
Gunnar Hjalmarsson
https://launchpad.net/~gunnarhj
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Gunnar Hjalmarsson <[email protected]> writes:
> On 2020-11-17 19:41, Bdale Garbee wrote:
>> This should be filed as a bug against the vrms package in Ubuntu,
>> not the one in Debian, as the Debian package sounds like it's
>> working exactly as intended.
>
> Please note that vrms is a native Debian package whose source is synced
> by Ubuntu. I have submitted a merge request, which may better explain
> what I mean:
>
> https://salsa.debian.org/debian/vrms/-/merge_requests/1
>
> The idea is to apply the suggested exception at build time, but only
> when building for Ubuntu. On Debian it would keep working as it
> currently does.
I won't merge that, but I'm no longer the principal maintainer of vrms
in Debian and won't object if the person who is thinks this is
appropriate to include.
Bdale
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