Hi Jonas,

On Mon, 21 Dec 2020 15:35:04 +0100 Jonas Smedegaard <d...@jones.dk> wrote:
> > > Setting severity to serious, as this package is not fit for release.
> > 
> > Why do you think the package is not fit for release? Because it did 
> > not have a maintainer upload for the last 10 years? It is static font 
> > data, after all? Or because it does not follow a naming convention 
> > that isn't even Debian policy?
> 
> Because two font packages provide same font - i.e. registers same font 
> id with fontconfig.

And what are the consequences of that? Please assume I have no clue how
fontconfig works at all.

> Feel free to lower severity or repurpose as a wishlist request to 
> document what is notable about this font over fonts-urw-base35, or 
> whatever - I have no strong attachment to this issue, it can linger for 
> another 10 years without me noticing much...

Your comment suggest that we should ignore this issue for bullseye.
There's quite some work to get it removed, it's late in the release cycle.

Paul
PS: please CC me on replies so I see the response quickly

elbrus@coccia:~$ dak rm --no-action -R --suite testing gsfonts
Will remove the following packages from testing:

   gsfonts | 1:8.11+urwcyr1.0.7~pre44-4.5 | source, all

Maintainer: Masayuki Hatta (mhatta) <mha...@debian.org>

------------------- Reason -------------------

----------------------------------------------

Checking reverse dependencies...
# Broken Depends:
abiword: abiword
dvd-slideshow: dvd-slideshow
gnumeric: gnumeric
grace: grace
gsfonts-x11: gsfonts-x11
hylafax: hylafax-client
ipe: ipe
popplerkit.framework: libpopplerkit0
ruby-gruff: ruby-gruff
ruby-mojo-magick: ruby-mojo-magick
webmagick: webmagick

# Broken Build-Depends:
aspectc++: gsfonts
axiom: gsfonts
debian-edu-doc: gsfonts
drawtiming: gsfonts
fricas: gsfonts
gloox: gsfonts
gprolog: gsfonts
graphicsmagick: gsfonts
gri: gsfonts
groff: gsfonts
gscan2pdf: gsfonts
hylafax: gsfonts
imagemagick: gsfonts
ipe: gsfonts
libforms: gsfonts
lilypond: gsfonts
routino: gsfonts
ruby-gruff: gsfonts
ruby-mojo-magick: gsfonts
ruby-rmagick: gsfonts
scalable-cyrfonts: gsfonts
sdcc: gsfonts

Dependency problem found.

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