Le Mar 23 décembre 2008 01:53, Jeff Spaleta a écrit :
python-matplotlib is carrying its own fonts around, which I didn't catch. My bad. So thanks for doing the auto-review.
We don't have any check to catch non-fonts packages that bundle fonts, even though we know that causes problems later, so really we are a bit under-tooled here :(
Anyway, I'd like to remind every packager that decides to drop the TTF fonts he shipped in his non-font-package, that's it's a good idea to add a dep on the appropriate DejaVu family, and not on freefonts or bitstream vera (unless the package has specific style or metric requirements).
DejaVu is in the default install set, the others aren't, so adding them as deps will result in more resource use mirror and user side (also freefonts will probably be renamed/reorganised before the end of the cycle).
In Rawhide dejavu has been split in three packages so you only need to depend on the font family you actually need, not the full set.
Sincerely,