On 24/08/16 23:48, Holger Levsen wrote:
I'm not sure what I suggest, introducing a fonts-liberation-1.7 source package seems backward to me. Maybe just file an upstream bug?
There is an upstream bug, filed in 2012. Red Hat have had four years to address this problem. Their fix was to kick Liberation 2 out of Fedora 18 and stick with Liberation 1:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=856239 Fedora 25 is still scheduled to use Liberation 1.I think this was a sensible decision as the new SIL licence and extra glyphs do not in my view compensate for the loss of decent hinting. Liberation 1 was a magnificent achievement and is still a good choice today. It is by no means obsolete. I am yet to find another open source font family that is as readable and versatile and also plays nicely with fontconfig.
The main problem is that Red Hat decided to reuse the Liberation name; if they had chosen a new name, we would not be having this problem.
Kind regards, -- Ben Caradoc-Davies <ben@transient.nz> Director Transient Software Limited <http://transient.nz/> New Zealand