Bug#995606: lintian: non-free font packages and {truetype,opentype}-font-prohibits-installable-embedding

2021-10-02 Thread Felix Lechner
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

Bug#995606: lintian: non-free font packages and {truetype,opentype}-font-prohibits-installable-embedding

2021-10-02 Thread Paul Wise
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,

Bug#995606: lintian: non-free font packages and {truetype,opentype}-font-prohibits-installable-embedding

2021-10-02 Thread Paul Wise
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 DebianĀ  should probably try to discourage it. On