[Trisquel-devel] Package fonts-trisquel suggests ubuntu-fonts

[Nikos Parafestas]

Hi Luis,

I just thought you missed it. Thank you for explaining it to me.

Cheers

On 26/10/23 16:51, Luis Guzman wrote:
> Hello Nikos!
>
> En 25/10/23 23:54, Nikos Parafestas escribió:
>> The description of package 
>> https://packages.trisquel.org/aramo/fonts-trisquel has a description 
>> "Virtual package providing fonts-ubuntu. This is wrong  as Trisquel 
>> (and rightly so) doesn't provide the (non-free) package ubuntu-fonts. 
>
> "Virtual package providing" that's the terminology when a package 
> replaces another one as a virtual package, this is so when a package 
> tries to call, in this case, ubuntu-fonts, then it will install 
> fonts-trisquel, this technique avoid the need to look for all present 
> and future packages looking for ubuntu-fonts and try to change them.
>
> Please take a look at: 
> https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-relationships.html#s-virtual
>
> Regards.
>
>
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