Re: [Trisquel-devel] Package fonts-trisquel suggests ubuntu-fonts
Hi Luis, I just thought you missed it. Thank you for explaining it to me. Cheers On 26/10/23 16:51, Luis Guzman wrote: Hello Nikos! En 25/10/23 23:54, Nikos Parafestas escribió: The description of package https://packages.trisquel.org/aramo/fonts-trisquel has a description "Virtual package providing fonts-ubuntu. This is wrong as Trisquel (and rightly so) doesn't provide the (non-free) package ubuntu-fonts. "Virtual package providing" that's the terminology when a package replaces another one as a virtual package, this is so when a package tries to call, in this case, ubuntu-fonts, then it will install fonts-trisquel, this technique avoid the need to look for all present and future packages looking for ubuntu-fonts and try to change them. Please take a look at: https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-relationships.html#s-virtual Regards. ___ Trisquel-devel mailing list [email protected] https://listas.trisquel.info/mailman/listinfo/trisquel-devel OpenPGP_0x9DB55816866F4504.asc Description: OpenPGP public key OpenPGP_signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ Trisquel-devel mailing list [email protected] https://listas.trisquel.info/mailman/listinfo/trisquel-devel
Re: [Trisquel-devel] Package fonts-trisquel suggests ubuntu-fonts
Hello Nikos! En 25/10/23 23:54, Nikos Parafestas escribió: The description of package https://packages.trisquel.org/aramo/fonts-trisquel has a description "Virtual package providing fonts-ubuntu. This is wrong as Trisquel (and rightly so) doesn't provide the (non-free) package ubuntu-fonts. "Virtual package providing" that's the terminology when a package replaces another one as a virtual package, this is so when a package tries to call, in this case, ubuntu-fonts, then it will install fonts-trisquel, this technique avoid the need to look for all present and future packages looking for ubuntu-fonts and try to change them. Please take a look at: https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-relationships.html#s-virtual Regards. -- Cuanto más gente resista, más gente va a ser Libre, y más gente va a ser libre para ser Libre. Por tu propio bien, y en solidaridad a todos, elige la libertad. ¡Sé Libre! http://fsfla.org/selibre/ Luis A. Guzmán G. http://ark.switnet.org OpenPGP_signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ Trisquel-devel mailing list [email protected] https://listas.trisquel.info/mailman/listinfo/trisquel-devel
