Bug#989808: fonts-linuxlibertine: Newer Libertine fonts available from CTAN

[Norbert Preining <preining@logic.at>]

Hi Zack,

thanks for your report.

On Sun, 13 Jun 2021, Zack Weinberg wrote:
> taken over maintenance; the version of these fonts on CTAN
> (https://www.ctan.org/pkg/libertine/) is still labeled “5.3.0” but has
> received significant changes relative to what’s in Debian right now.
[...]
> is, however, ineffective on Debian because the font files in
> /usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/opentype/public/libertine are just
> symlinks to the files provided by the fonts-linuxlibertine package.

I think I will go back to shipping *our* version of the LL fonts - I
wasn't aware that the Libertine fonts project is so much dead.

Let us hear what the ll maintainers here suggest.

(But this will only happen after release of bullseye, since everything
is in deep freeze now).

Thanks

Norbert

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