Bug#613912: ghostscript ships its own fonts in libgs9-common, additionally depends on gsfonts

[fabian@greffrath.com]

Hi Jonas,

> Am 18.02.2011 11:33, schrieb Jonas Smedegaard:
> There is currently a discussion on gs-devel to merge the urwcyr
> 1.0.7pre44 fonts that Debian ships in their gsfonts package into the
> fonts that ghostscript ships:
> <http://ghostscript.com/pipermail/gs-devel/2011-February/008891.html>

There are some news: According to this thread
http://ghostscript.com/pipermail/gs-devel/2011-March/008939.html
ghostscript upstream is going to revert the shipped fonts to the original
URW++ fonts in one of the next releases. Their argumentation is plausibel,
as they want to resemble the Adobe fonts as closely as possible and do not
gain any advantadge by adding additional glyphs (of dubious quality).

I believe, Debian should ship these fonts as well in a separate package
and drop the urwcyr, i.e. gsfonts, package altogether. People who need the
URW++ fonts with additional glyphs should be adviced to use the TeX Gyre
fonts instead.

 - Fabian