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Re: Bug#500532: please improve english NEWS.Debian text



Here for d-l-e readers is the current NEWS.Debian text:

ttf-kochi (1.0.20030809-6) unstable; urgency=low         

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  | Please use ttf-sazanami-{mincho,gothic}, instead of ttf-kochi   |           
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  kochi upstream development is discontinued and upstream suggest to use
  "sazanami" font (ttf-sazanami-mincho/gothic), kochi based one. So we will
  not fix some corrupted glyphes with kochi (those glyphes are fixed with
  sazanami -U+2211, U+221F, U+222E, U+301D, U+301F, U+3231, U+3232, U+3239,
  U+32A4, U+32A5, U+32A6, U+32A7, U+32A8, and U+33CD).
           
  So Users, please use ttf-sazanami-mincho/gothic font, not ttf-kochi-*.
           
 -- Hideki Yamane (Debian-JP) <henrich@debian.or.jp>  Fri, 26 Sep 2008 18:33:35

Gaudenz Steinlin wrote:
> ttf-sazanami replaces ttf-kochi
> *******************************
> 
> The developement of the kochi fonts is discontinued. The author of
> these fonts suggests the use of the sazanami fonts as a replacement.
> The sazanami fonts are based on the kochi fonts. They fix several 
> glyphes which are corrupted in the kochi fonts. 
>
> The sazanami fonts can be found in the Debian packages ttf-sazanami-mincho 
> and ttf-sazanami-gothic.

(Spelling: development, glyphs.)

I'd like to reduce the repetitions of "the $fontname fonts", maybe
like this:

  Upstream development of the kochi fonts has been discontinued. The author
  of these fonts suggests as a replacement the use of the kochi-based
  "sazanami" fonts. These fix several glyphs which are corrupted in the
  kochi fonts.

-- 
JBR	with qualifications in linguistics, experience as a Debian
	sysadmin, and probably no clue about this particular package


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