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[Bug 1487148] Re: [MIR] fonts-stix -- to replace xfonts-mathml

 

** Description changed:

- The libreoffice-common package currently recommends xfonts-mathml, which
- was removed from Debian in 2014 with the rationale that it is superseded
- by fonts-stix (and that it has a license problem).  Please replace it
- with fonts-stix.
+ [Availability]
+ already in xenial
  
- Since xfonts-mathml is only a Recommends: rather than Depends:, I'm
- going to go ahead and remove xfonts-mathml from wily.  If for some
- reason fonts-stix is not a suitable replacement and xfonts-mathml is
- still needed, please feel free to reupload it to the archive and close
- this bug.
+ 
+ [Rationale]
+ The libreoffice-common package currently recommends xfonts-mathml, which was removed from Debian in 2014 with the rationale that it is superseded by fonts-stix (and that it has a license problem).  Please replace it with fonts-stix.
+ 
+ [Security]
+ no executable code
+ 
+ [Quality assurance]
+ no executable code
+ 
+ [Dependencies]
+ no further deps needed: see http://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-archive/component-mismatches.txt
+ 
+ [Standards compliance]
+ trivial package, maintained by Debian
+ 
+ [Maintenance]
+ no executable code, maintained by Debian, stable/low frequency updates
+ 
+ [Background information] 
+ Since xfonts-mathml is only a Recommends: rather than Depends:, I'm going to go ahead and remove xfonts-mathml from wily.  If for some reason fonts-stix is not a suitable replacement and xfonts-mathml is still needed, please feel free to reupload it to the archive and close this bug.

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Title:
  [MIR] fonts-stix -- to replace xfonts-mathml

Status in fonts-stix package in Ubuntu:
  New
Status in libreoffice package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  [Availability]
  already in xenial

  
  [Rationale]
  The libreoffice-common package currently recommends xfonts-mathml, which was removed from Debian in 2014 with the rationale that it is superseded by fonts-stix (and that it has a license problem).  Please replace it with fonts-stix.

  [Security]
  no executable code

  [Quality assurance]
  no executable code

  [Dependencies]
  no further deps needed: see http://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-archive/component-mismatches.txt

  [Standards compliance]
  trivial package, maintained by Debian

  [Maintenance]
  no executable code, maintained by Debian, stable/low frequency updates

  [Background information] 
  Since xfonts-mathml is only a Recommends: rather than Depends:, I'm going to go ahead and remove xfonts-mathml from wily.  If for some reason fonts-stix is not a suitable replacement and xfonts-mathml is still needed, please feel free to reupload it to the archive and close this bug.

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