[PD] Pd-extended 0.43.1 beta builds

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

On Feb 2, 2012, at 3:44 AM, IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote:

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> On 2012-02-02 03:35, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
>> On Wed, 2012-02-01 at 23:17 +0100, Kaj Ailomaa wrote:
>>> On Tue, 2012-01-31 at 23:15 -0500, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
>>>> At this point, the Pd-extended 0.43.1 builds are definitely beta quality.  I have fixed all bugs that I could find, and I just taught a class with it.  Its working well.  Please try it out with your patches and let me know what you find:
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>>>> http://autobuild.puredata.info/auto-build/latest/
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>>>> .hc
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>>> Just wanted to point out that the package for wheezy (i386) has an unmet
>>> dependency: x-ttcidfont-conf
>>> 
>>> After googling a bit it appears it has been removed..
>>> http://packages.qa.debian.org/x/x-ttcidfont-conf.html
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>> That package is there for Gem, as far as I know.  Do any Gem people know
>> if we still need that package?
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> i don't know about this package.
> i even had to look up, what it is supposed to do.
> it's definitely not a thing that Gem depends on (in a sense, that Gem
> itself could make use of it)
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> the only dependency of Gem that is related to fonts is ftgl, everything
> else (including a font package that provides a _default_ font for Gem
> text rendering) should never ever be a hard dependency.
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> so from my side, feel free to remove the dependency on this package.

My memory might have failed me, it might have been for font handling for Pd itself.  In any case, I've switched it to Recommends:

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