Bug#644230: debian-policy: Please change virtual package name for Japanese fonts

[Nobuhiro Iwamatsu <iwamatsu@nigauri.org>]

Hi,

2011/10/4 Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>:
> Nobuhiro Iwamatsu wrote:
>
>> There are ttf-japanese-mincho and ttf-japanese-gothic in the virtual package
>> of font packages for Japanese now.
>> By the Fonts team, we are switching over from ttf- to fonts- by ackage file
>> name now.
>> To this shift, I suggest that I change the virtual package
>> from ttf-japanese-{mincho, gothic} to fonts-japanese-{mincho, gothic}.
>
> Sounds fine to me.
>
> Please forgive my ignorance: how is one supposed to use these virtual
> packages?  I wonder if packages like kanatest should be depending on
> these virtual packages, and if there is some standard font name or
> other interface packages can use to get the right behavior when they
> are installed.
>

I think that a package like kanatest which needs to indicate by Japanese
needs to depend on a Japanese font package.

When pakcage maintainer does not know what kind of Japanese font
should have set,
this virtual package works effectively.
When this is set, a Japanese package of best quality is installed.

And most application works for the cause by setting of fontconfig.
This work does not depend on ttf-japanese-{gothic,mincho}.

Best regards,
  Nobuhiro

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