Bug#827911: libreoffice-common: Fonts missing from Debian

[Rene Engelhard <rene@debian.org>]

severity 827911 wishlist
retitle 827911 libreoffice-common: please ship LibreOffice-bundled fonts missing from Debian otherwise
thanks

Hi,

On Wed, Jun 22, 2016 at 03:45:36PM +0200, Frederic MASSOT wrote:
> Package: libreoffice-common
> Version: 1:5.1.4~rc1-1
> Severity: normal

Sorry, but I disagree. It's not a bug in the package because building with
--without-fonts was a deliberate choice.

It's more a wish to add them -> wishlist. And retitling accordingly.

> LibreOffice comes with a set of fonts to have no problem for sharing files between systems, these fonts are removed from the Debian package.
>
> For fonts that have not yet Debian package, please, can you leave them in the libreoffice-common?

IMHO it's not the job of an office suite to ship fonts. (Except here
maybe OpenSymbol.)

Get them packaged in Debian and the problem will be gone..

Thus I *do* see that this not-packaged-fonts thing is a problem, but I am not
sure we should ship them in -common. We'd step on the new packages' toes
if we put it in /usr/share/truetype directly and there might be reasons why
they are not packaged...

Regards,

Rene