Quoting Vasudev Kamath (2015-11-10 17:02:49) > [Adding pkg-fonts-devel in Cc so others can share their suggestion] > Maximiliano Curia <maxy@gnuservers.com.ar> writes: >> On 10/11/15 16:17, Vasudev Kamath wrote: >>> Since Android upstream stopped shipping Droid fonts and its been >>> declared that Noto fonts will be superseding the Droid¹² we in >>> "Debian Fonts Task Force" team decided to drop fonts-droid package. >>> One of your package cinnamon-desktop-environment either >>> Depends/Recommends/Suggests/Build-Depends on fonts-droid. I kindly >>> request you to do the switch to fonts-noto instead. >>> If you are using Fallback variants of Droid fonts, I would like note >>> that these fonts will still be shipped as part of new >>> fonts-droid-fallback package. >> >> Cinnamon has no strong usage of the droid fonts, only a couple of svg >> files that use it, but then, are you planning to provide a fontconfig >> file to use the Noto fonts as a replacement of the Droid ones? > > I had never thought about that option. But since we are completely > dropping fonts-droid and all fonts in it, I wonder if providing a > fontconfig file will make sense. > > Dear pkg-fonts team, > > I don't have much experience with writing fontconfig files. Can you guys > please share your thoughts on above option?. Either Droid is dead and upstream simply point to Noto as an alternative with similar features as the dead one, or Droid _is_ now called Noto. Only if the latter is the case does it make sense IMO to register as replacement in fontconfig. - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private
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