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

Hi Norbert,

On Sun, Apr 26, 2026 at 3:55 AM Norbert Preining <[email protected]> wrote:

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

Nice to hear your opinion on this.

> 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)

Sounds good. However, there are two parts to handle,
one is the PFB+VF for pdfTeX, and the other is the TTF
for X/fontconfig. Currently, the former is shipped in both
texlive-lang-other and latex-fonts-arundina, and the latter
in fonts-arundina separately.

So, there is no resource that links to X/fontconfig yet
in all CTAN stuff anyway.

To be in sync with upstream TeX Live, I think the links
into texmf tree should be delayed until the TTF (or OTF
as I intend to switch to in the future) is actually included
in CTAN.

That means maintaining latex-fonts-arundina myself
should minimize the need for communication work.

> 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.

As described above, I think your approach is more appropriate.
So, let's exclude fonts-arundina stuff in texlive-lang-other
and add latex-fonts-arundina dependency instead.

Should the same be done to fonts-tlwg, then? But I have to revive
latex-fonts-tlwg first. (It was previously dropped in favor of the TeX Live
version.)

Best regards,
Theppitak.