* Sébastien Villemot <sebast...@debian.org> [2020-12-24 21:22]:
Hi Stanislav,
Le jeudi 24 décembre 2020 à 19:11 +0000, Stanislav Maslovski a écrit :
Package: octave
Version: 6.1.0-2
Severity: normal
After testing octave --gui on a fresh Debian installation, I noticed
that octave complains about being unable to load FreeSans OTF font
when trying to create a simple 2D plot. As a result, nothing is
plotted. Installing fonts-freefont-otf package resolved the problem.
Possibly, a depends or recomends is missing?
octave depends on octave-common, which itself recommends fonts-
freefont-otf. So I don’t understand why fonts-freefont-otf was not
installed on your system.
Perhaps he has this setting in his configuration:
APT::Install-Recommends "false";
In any case, I don’t see what should be changed at the octave level
We could change the Recommend into Depends. Of course, Octave can be
used without plotting, but most users would expect that plotting works
out of the box.
Best,
Rafael
