pango should drop the recommends on x-ttcidfont-conf

Bug #983274 reported by Steve Langasek
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pango1.0 (Debian)
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pango1.0 (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

pango is one of the few packages still holding defoma in main (and on the CDs). The reason is a Recommends: on x-ttcidfont-conf, which is a supplementary package to pull truetype and CID fonts into the X font path. pango's Recommends is obsolete - it was added in order to support management of a config file that no longer exists at all, and Debian has dropped the Recommends.

Dropping x-ttcidfont-conf itself from the CD *may* have unintended consequences, in that the X server has /var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType hard-coded on its path and this appears to be the only way that truetype fonts are exposed as server-side X fonts:

  /usr/share/fonts/X11/misc,/usr/share/fonts/X11/cyrillic,/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi/:unscaled,/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi/:unscaled,/usr/share/fonts/X11/Type1,/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi,/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi,/var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType,built-ins

Nevertheless, Debian has dropped x-ttcidfont-conf entirely in testing and unstable, and no one appears to be screaming. So I think this is still safe to get done for 12.04. In any case, we know that the default desktop is *not* using server-side fonts for its rendering, it's using client-side fonts *via pango* (and fontconfig), so pulling this in as a standard dependency in order to make more fonts available server-side really doesn't seem to make any sense.

See also <http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=657565>, asking the X server to not look at the x-ttcidfont-conf path.

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Steve Langasek (vorlon)
Changed in pango1.0 (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Medium
Changed in pango1.0 (Debian):
status: Unknown → Fix Released
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package pango1.0 - 1.30.0-0ubuntu2

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pango1.0 (1.30.0-0ubuntu2) precise-proposed; urgency=low

  * Drop spurious Recommends: on x-ttcidfont-conf; this was added as an
    option for managing a config file that no longer exists, and nothing
    uses x-ttcidfont-conf or defoma any more for managing fonts. LP: #983274.
 -- Steve Langasek <email address hidden> Mon, 16 Apr 2012 10:40:26 -0700

Changed in pango1.0 (Ubuntu):
status: New → Fix Released
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skierpage (skierpage) wrote :

I'm running Kubuntu 12.04 (precise) amd64 , and I found the obsolete defoma, x-ttcidfont-conf, and psfontmgr packages on my system, even though my system's packages include the libpango1.0-0 version 1.30.0-0ubuntu2 mentioned here that supposedly drops these dependencies.

It turns out I also had the obsolete libpango1.0-common version 1.28.2-0ubuntu1.1 installed (note *-common* in the name), even though it seems this was last used in maverick. Removing that package let me remove and purge these other obsolete packages. Perhaps libpango1.0-0 should have a "Replaces: libpango1.0-common" line. Or maybe there was a bug somewhere along the way in the O.S. upgrades — I've upgraded from 9.04 (jaunty) without ever doing a full reinstall! ;-) Or most likely it's just user error.

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