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Re: Completely switch graphical installer to fonts-noto?



Holger Wansing <hwansing@mailbox.org> (2020-04-09):
> Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org> wrote:
> > Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org> (2020-03-28):
> > > This would be an easy way to publish updated installation images for
> > > people to toy with, and compare with the previous alpha. And I think
> > > that'd be a sensible approach (at least that's what I had in mind).
> > > 
> > > Gathering the results and drawing a conclusion is what worries me a
> > > little.
> > 
> > By the way, I didn't investigate this in deep but I didn't easily spot a
> > recent change regarding fonts in the few d-i packages I had in mind… I'm
> > seeing a rather different rendering (which seems rather bad at first
> > glance) with the daily build I was about to test.
> > 
> > It might be a side effect of the recent fontconfig upload:
> >   https://tracker.debian.org/news/1113021/accepted-fontconfig-2131-3-source-all-amd64-into-unstable-unstable/
> > 
> > Attached, reference image for the languages screen for bullseye, plus a
> > screenshot for a daily build.
> > 
> > If someone fancies investigating… ;)
> 
> There is no point in investigating that, if we switch to fonts-noto
> anyway :-))

I'm not sure there's actually “no point”. A possible fontconfig issue
could be hindering your tests regarding that switch…


Cheers,
-- 
Cyril Brulebois (kibi@debian.org)            <https://debamax.com/>
D-I release manager -- Release team member -- Freelance Consultant

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