Bug#961389: fonts-dejavu-core: unannounced change of default config breaks user configuration
Package: fonts-dejavu-core
Version: 2.37-2
Severity: normal
Since the upgrade to 2.37-2, box drawing and underline characters
no longer work in Emacs with my configuration. I could check that
this is because Bitstream Vera Sans Mono (which is very incomplete)
is used as the primary font instead of DejaVu Sans Mono: Since I'm
currently using generic names, I suppose that this is due to
* Apply upstream commit to remove redundant generic name assignment
and aliasing from fontconfig configuration. Thanks Jan Niklas
Hasse, Closes: #753401.
Before the upgrade:
cventin% fc-match Mono
DejaVuSansMono.ttf: "DejaVu Sans Mono" "Book"
cventin% fc-match Monospace
DejaVuSansMono.ttf: "DejaVu Sans Mono" "Book"
After the upgrade:
zira% fc-match Mono
VeraMono.ttf: "Bitstream Vera Sans Mono" "Roman"
zira% fc-match Monospace
VeraMono.ttf: "Bitstream Vera Sans Mono" "Roman"
I've reported the following bug against fontconfig-config concerning
this poor choice:
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=961386
I think that the issue should have first been fixed there before
changing fonts-dejavu.
Anyway, since the change affects user config that uses generic names,
it should be announced in NEWS.Debian.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: bullseye/sid
APT prefers unstable-debug
APT policy: (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 5.6.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE, TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
Locale: LANG=POSIX, LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=POSIX (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
-- no debconf information
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