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Bug#1056203: fonts-wine breaks font rendering



Package: fonts-wine
Version: 8.0.1~repack-2

I just did a dist upgrade and got the change that moves the wine fonts into the global /usr/share/fonts path where all programs use them. This appears to be in response to issue #883973.

Please revert this change. These are not the real Microsoft fonts, but rather similar fonts created by the Wine folk. Tahoma, in particular, doesn't render nicely at all. It has very bad kerning and does not anti-alias.

Tahoma is very frequently referenced in emails and documents, and this change makes it really hard to read those texts, where previously there was a good substitution.

The correct way to install Microsoft fonts is mscorettfonts. Using substitutes is okay in Wine, but shouldn't affect the experience outside of Wine.

--Pat


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