[Date Prev][Date Next] [Thread Prev][Thread Next] [Date Index] [Thread Index]

Bug#915825: [G-I] installer completely broken for Gujarati, missing font



Quoting Holger Wansing (2018-12-07 08:39:23)
> With commit 
> "Replace ttf-freefont-udeb by fonts-freefont-udeb as the former has been
> removed from unstable (and thus testing)." under
> https://salsa.debian.org/installer-team/debian-installer/commit/94507f32b36ce050a3f45777b75dce793db3e614
> things changed for fonts apparently.
> Gujarati is no longer usable, all glyphs are replaced by TOFU placeholder
> signs.
> 
> Jonas Smedegaard proposed to switch to noto-fonts as an alternative. 
> He uploaded a new version of that udeb to unstable just some days ago, 
> thus it is only in unstable ATM.
> So I tried that and built a netboot-gtk image locally with this patch 
> implemented and with the noto-fonts-unhinted-udeb as a localudeb:
[...]
> And this brings Gujarati back to the G-I.
> 
> That leads to the assumption, that the gu glyphs seem to be missing in 
> the new fonts-freefont package.

Please file a separate bugreport against fonts-freefont to track that.


> I need to mention, that the above patch (adding another udeb to the 
> build) increases the netboot-gtk image (amd64) from 69 to 85 MB!
> Therefore that's probably not an acceptable solution as it is.
> But I think Jonas would be able move the relevant glyphs to another 
> udeb maybe, so that we don't need the whole fonts-noto-unhinted-udeb 
> in the build?

Yes, as soon as (or if at all) I installer team confirms they are ok 
using Noto Gujarati, I include that font in fonts-noto-hinted-udeb.


 - Jonas

-- 
 * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt
 * Tlf.: +45 40843136  Website: http://dr.jones.dk/

 [x] quote me freely  [ ] ask before reusing  [ ] keep private

Attachment: signature.asc
Description: signature


Reply to: