Bug#827911: libreoffice-common: Fonts missing from Debian
Le 22/06/2016 à 16:26, Rene Engelhard a écrit :
> severity 827911 wishlist retitle 827911 libreoffice-common: please
> ship LibreOffice-bundled fonts missing from Debian otherwise thanks
>
> Hi,
Hi,
Thank you for your reply.
> 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.
Ok.
>> 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.)
It is true that usually the fonts are not provided by the software,
whether on Linux, Mac or Windows.
But the problem is the document exchange between workstations with
different OS. If a font is not installed on a machine, the document is
unstructured, text out tables. a document on one page is on two pages, etc.
For these reasons, LibreOffice (upstream, Mac, Windows) comes with a set
of free fonts. When using these fonts we are sure to have no problem for
sharing document.
My direction was clear, if the documents can not be exchanged with
Linux, workstations go to Windows with Word. Currently I have manually
installed the fonts used in "/usr/local/share/fonts/". I downloaded the
fonts on Google Fonts website.
> Get them packaged in Debian and the problem will be gone..
There are wnpp to package these fonts, but still no packets.
For me, as long as the fonts are not packaged separately by Debian, they
must be provided by LibreOffice package like upstream.
> 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.
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