Control: severity -1 minor Control: tag -1 + confirmed Hi Roland,
Roland Stigge wrote: > wml::des::gfont is utilizing the executable gfont which is not > available in squeeze, wheezy and sid. Yep. It has been removed from Debian in 2005 (see http://bugs.debian.org/328594) and I removed the "Suggests" in 2010. (c.f. http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/pool/main/w/wml/current/changelog#version2.0.11ds2-1) Despite upstream still claims fame for gfont[1], he no more provides the sources for it[2] and the last release was in 1999. [1] http://engelschall.com/open-source-community.php [2] http://engelschall.com/sw/gfont/ The upstream webpage seems to have been deleted in 2004. Compare [3] vs [4]. [3] http://web.archive.org/web/20040831085446/http://www.engelschall.com/sw/gfont/ [4] http://web.archive.org/web/20041205213834/http://engelschall.com/sw/gfont In case someone wants to continue maintaining gfont as upstream and in Debian, I'll happily re-add a Suggests or Recommends on it again. The old Debian package is still available at http://snapshot.debian.org/package/gfont/1.0.3-1/ Interestingly it was considered non-free, despite debian/copyright said "GPL" (and licensecheck said GPL + LGPL + UNKNOWN). The changelog for 1.0.2-2 reads: * Moved gfont from "Section: graphics" to "Section: non-free/graphics". Thanks to James Troup <[email protected]> for pointing this out! :) Unfortunately the reason is not mentioned. Maybe due to GIF patent issues back then? That would be no more an issue today. So the only thing I would do about it is to add a entry to README.Debian about wml::des::gfont not being usable. Is that what you expected but wasn't there? Regards, Axel -- ,''`. | Axel Beckert <[email protected]>, http://people.debian.org/~abe/ : :' : | Debian Developer, ftp.ch.debian.org Admin `. `' | 1024D: F067 EA27 26B9 C3FC 1486 202E C09E 1D89 9593 0EDE `- | 4096R: 2517 B724 C5F6 CA99 5329 6E61 2FF9 CD59 6126 16B5 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
