Quoting Julien Cristau ([email protected]): > On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 11:46:28 +0200, Fabian Greffrath wrote: > > > Dear release team, > > > > src:fonts-liberation_1.07.2-7 is currently stuck in unstable. Britney > > hesitates to let it migrate to testing, because it does not provide the > > ttf-liberation transitional package anymore. However, that transition > > has been done in the previous release cycle, so please allow its > > migration. > > > No, the transition is not done. If you want the new version to > migrate, bring the transitional package back until you've updated the > rdeps. (This whole renaming game with font packages seems entirely > pointless...)
It is not: - consistency with other distros - stupidly naming packages after the format of the font file - not having "font" as part of the name of a font package So, no, it is not pointless.
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