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

[Bastien ROUCARIES <roucaries.bastien@gmail.com>]

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On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 12:48 PM,  <fabian@greffrath.com> wrote:
> Hi Jonas,
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>> 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>
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> 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).
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> 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.
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>  - Fabian
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