Bug#995606: lintian: non-free font packages and {truetype,opentype}-font-prohibits-installable-embedding
Hi Paul, On Sat, Oct 2, 2021 at 10:03 PM Paul Wise wrote: > > downgrade the embedding tags to either info or pedantic > for non-free packages. I too would like to see variable visibilities, but we do not currently offer them. The traditional solution has been to introduce new tags. Maybe I will take it as an opportunity to give the matter some thought. Kind regards Felix Lechner
Bug#995606: lintian: non-free font packages and {truetype,opentype}-font-prohibits-installable-embedding
On Sat, 2021-10-02 at 22:15 -0700, Felix Lechner wrote: > I too would like to see variable visibilities, but we do not currently > offer them. The traditional solution has been to introduce new tags. Splitting the tag up would also allow having different advice for packages in main vs non-free, which I guess is not an option for a single tag either, so splitting them is probably a good idea anyway. -- bye, pabs https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Bug#995606: lintian: non-free font packages and {truetype,opentype}-font-prohibits-installable-embedding
Package: lintian Severity: wishlist For non-free fonts, prohibiting embedding is often consistent with the license, so the two lintian warnings often don't really apply. On the other hand prohibiting embedding is particularly user hostile so Debian should probably try to discourage it. On balance I think the right solution is to downgrade the embedding tags to either info or pedantic for non-free packages. The openboard-extras-nonfree package is already overriding this tag, probably due to the warning vs pedantic level. truetype-font-prohibits-installable-embedding opentype-font-prohibits-installable-embedding -- bye, pabs https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
