[Adding pkg-fonts-devel in Cc so others can share their suggestion] Maximiliano Curia <[email protected]> writes:
> Control: tag -1 + pending > > On 10/11/15 16:17, Vasudev Kamath wrote: >> Since Android upstream stopped shipping Droid fonts and its been >> declared that Noto fonts will be superseding the Droid¹² we in >> "Debian Fonts Task Force" team decided to drop fonts-droid package. >> One of your package cinnamon-desktop-environment either >> Depends/Recommends/Suggests/Build-Depends on fonts-droid. I kindly >> request you to do the switch to fonts-noto instead. >> If you are using Fallback variants of Droid fonts, I would like note >> that these fonts will still be shipped as part of new >> fonts-droid-fallback package. > Cinnamon has no strong usage of the droid fonts, only a couple of svg > files that use it, but then, are you planning to provide a fontconfig > file to use the Noto fonts as a replacement of the Droid ones? I had never thought about that option. But since we are completely dropping fonts-droid and all fonts in it, I wonder if providing a fontconfig file will make sense. Dear pkg-fonts team, I don't have much experience with writing fontconfig files. Can you guys please share your thoughts on above option?. > Happy hacking, Thanks,
