[Bug 983274] Re: pango should drop the recommends on x-ttcidfont-conf

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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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Title:
  pango should drop the recommends on x-ttcidfont-conf

Status in “pango1.0” package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in “pango1.0” package in Debian:
  Fix Released

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  pango's Recommends is obsolete - it was added in order to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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