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font-in-non-font-package

This package contains a *.ttf, *.otf, or *.pfb file, file extensions used by TrueType, OpenType, or Type 1 fonts, but the package does not appear to be a dedicated font package. Dedicated font package names should begin with fonts-. (Type 1 fonts are also allowed in packages starting with xfonts-.) If the font is already packaged, you should depend on that package instead. Otherwise, normally the font should be packaged separately, since fonts are usually useful outside of the package that embeds them.

The tag is present in Lintian version 2.114.163. That is the most recent version we know about.

We use semantic versions. The patch number is a commit step indicator relative to the 2.114.0 release tag in our Git repository.

You can find the detection logic for this version at commit ea05801. For merge requests, please use the latest version in the Lintian check fonts.

Visibility: info

The following 376 source packages in the archive triggered the tag 17230 times (in any Lintian version).

We found 460 overrides. The tag performed 97% of the time.