[Tux4kids-tuxtype-dev] Tuxtype branch for big overhaul

Holger Levsen holger at layer-acht.org
Sun Mar 30 11:16:56 UTC 2008


Hi,

On Friday 28 March 2008 17:28, David Bruce wrote:
> require yet another font.  As the number of fonts grows, it is becoming
> more important for someone (perhaps me) to fix tuxtype so it reacts
> gracefully if a requested font cannot be loaded (at present, this causes a
> segfault).  We could then change the Debian dependencies for fonts to
> "recommends" (or "suggests", or whatever the correct term is).

I'll definitly applaud this :)

"recommends" is the correct dependency information if the font is in Debian 
main, otherwise it can only be a "suggest". (Recommended packages are 
installed by default nowadays, suggestes ones are not.)


regards,
	Holger
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