Paul, Could you comment on this from the Debian font team perspective? What's the right thing to do in a case like this?
Thijs Kinkhorst <[email protected]> writes: > On my package 'serendipity' I now get the following Lintian warning: > > W: serendipity: duplicate-font-file > usr/share/serendipity/www/plugins/serendipity_event_spamblock/chumbly.ttf > also in ttf-aenigma > N: > N: This package appears to include a font file that is already provided by > N: another package in Debian. It should instead depend on the relevant font > N: package. If the application in this package loads the font file by name, > N: you may need to include a symlink pointing to the file name of the font > N: in its Debian package. > N: > N: Severity: normal, Certainty: possible > N: > > This may sound fair at first, but since the ttf-aenigma package has an > installed size of 25 MB and my package needs just that one font, so > depending on ttf-aenigma does not seem like such a good idea afterall. > > Since the package is that huge, perhaps Lintian should not be > encouraging maintainers to start depending on it when they have just one > font from it in their packages. Or do you think I should rather add an > override instead? -- Russ Allbery ([email protected]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
