Comment 1 for bug 445402

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In , Mark W. Eichin (eichin-kitten) wrote : X-Server should depend on xfnt*

> The X-Server packages should depend on any xfnt package, because without
> any X-Font the postinst would fail (X -probeonly fails).

I'd guess that the -probeonly fails if there are either *no* fonts at
all or if there's not "fixed" font (if you have a setup handy where
you can test this, let me know, otherwise I'll try breaking one of the
machines here later...)

Rather than list all the font packages on each server, I think the
right thing to do is probably to create an 'xfnt' or 'xfntfixed'
virtual package (depending which theory above is right), depend on
that from *all* the servers, and provide it from all the font packages
(or if it's really "fixed", from all the font packages that provide a
fixed alias.) Comments?

   _Mark_ <email address hidden>
   The Herd of Kittens
   Debian X Maintainer

ps. I know, there's a seperate issue [#8463] with XF86Setup needing
xfnt75 as well, but ignore that for now...