Bug#1134913: texlive-lang-other: Please declare Breaks, Replaces against latex-fonts-arundina

Hi Theppitak

thanks for your email.

I am not the maintainer anymore, but have a few comments since I wrote
the original packaging.

On Sun, 26 Apr 2026, Theppitak Karoonboonyanan wrote:
> So, the functionality should be passed on to texlive-lang-other,
> and latex-fonts-arundina should be removed from the user's system
> once the former is installed, via the Breaks/Replaces mechanism.
> 
> I will stop building latex-fonts-arundina soon.

There is one problem with this: Fonts in /usr/share/texlive are **NOT**
available for X.

What I have normally done, and the Debian TeX Team is still doing, is
that in case of separate packaging of fonts, we do:
- do not ship the TeX Live version
- depend on the respective font package
- link the files into the texmf tree

This has several advantages:
* no duplication of font files
* font remains available to X/fontconfig
* font is also available for TeX (xetex/luatex)

If you want to stop working on the latex-fonts-arundina package, that is
fine, and the breaks/replaces should be put in place.

If the above does make sense (mostly automatic availability for X), then
the described way might be a good option.

Best regards

Norbert

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