[Debian GNUstep maintainers] Bug#542334: Bug#542334: gnustep-back-common: please remove dependency on defoma

[Paul Wise]

On Wed, 2009-08-19 at 14:48 +0300, Yavor Doganov wrote:

> I'm afraid that I don't understand what you mean.  I'll close this bug
> when we get rid of the defoma dependency.  I'll close #454446 when we
> adopt the orphaned mknfonts.tool, which is a completely independent
> issue.  Why cloning is necessary?

I'm blind, I didn't see that you were modifying a different bug.

> > other than getting the libart backend to use libfontconfig instead of using fc-list
> > in the maintainer scripts.
> 
> This is not trivial at all, as there are significant differences between
> the design of the two backends (actually between the 3 -- we don't
> package the xlib backend currently).  Even if it was doable, personally
> I wouldn't want to diverge from upstream on such fundamental level.

Well, the idea would be to get upstream to make the change.

> > IMO you can just check if defoma-app is available and purge if it is,
> > preventing the need for defoma to stick around in squeeze.
> 
> This will fail in typical cases when defoma was pulled in as a
> dependency of gnustep-back-common.  Once we drop it, defoma will be
> removed during the same upgrade run and quite probably won't be
> available at the time gnustep-back-common's postinst is being run.

Hmmm. Perhaps you could run defoma-app when it is available or simulate
it when it is not available? Also, when defoma itself is removed, it
will call purge with your script.

-- 
bye,
pabs

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