Source: gcc-3.3
Version: 1:3.3.6ds1-34
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

we are currently removing the old gsfonts-x11 package and replace it
by fonts-urw-base35, which contains the real fonts (replaces gsfonts)
as well as the symlinks and fonts.scale/fonts.alias voodoo, which is
needed for using the fonts in X11.

Your source package gcc-3.3 currently Build-Depends on gsfonts-x11.
It would be a good idea to change this dependency to fonts-urw-base35
(or for backward compatibility to fonts-urw-base35 | gsfonts-x11).
For the release of bookworm this shouldn't be a problem, since we ship
a dummy package gsfonts-x11 depending on fonts-urw-base35, but it
would be a good idea to change the dependency anyway soon.

Except this, I'm curious, what this Build-Depends is good for at all.
The package gsfonts-x11 doesn't ship fonts itself but depends on the
gsfonts package (shipping Type1 fonts) and makes them available to
X11.  From my point of view this is only useful for some desktop
environment using X11 but should not be used in Build-Depends.

Greetings
Roland

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