Guillem Jover <guil...@debian.org> writes: > On Sat, 2019-10-05 at 21:44:25 +0200, Stephen Kitt wrote:
>> It’s common for packages to strongly depend on non-X fonts they need; >> see for example the reverse dependencies of fonts-dejavu. While lintian >> objects to X font depencencies >> (<https://lintian.debian.org/tags/package-depends-on-an-x-font-package.html>), >> it doesn’t have anything to say about non-X fonts (rightly so). >> >> Wouldn’t it make sense to relax the constraints on X font >> dependencies? > Looks like it to me, yes. Thank you for raising this, Stephen! I use remote display of X applications all the time and noticed a while back that fonts were being loaded on the local machine instead of on the machine hosting the X server, but never had a chance to dig into what had changed. This change looks right to me as well. Do you have time to propose a diff? -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>