Fabian Greffrath wrote:
> fonts installed into /usr/share/fonts/X11 are in fontconfig's search path and
> are thus perfectly available to non-X11 applications as well. It is thus
> unnecessary to add a hard dependency on xfonts-utils to such packages. Please
> demote this to a recommendation. I believe, this would also obsolete the
> package-depends-on-an-x-font-package lintian tag.

The dependency on xfonts-utils is currently mandated by policy 11.8.5 #9

If this needs to change, it should change by the usual policy process,
not in debhelper.

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