Package: fonts-liberation
Version: 1:2.1.5-2
Severity: important
X-Debbugs-Cc: ti...@debian.org, fab...@debian.org

Hi Fabian,

Thanks for your work on fonts-liberation.

As stated in recent transition[1], fonts-liberation package has taken
over liberation2 and the latter is now just an empty binary package for
transistional reason.

However, fonts-liberation2 used to vendor the files in 
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/liberation2/
as seen here[2] which has now been pruned[3]. This is breaking packages
that rely on usr/share/truetype/liberation2 for symlinking ttf files
and/or using them in code. One such example is r-cran-fontsliberation
which has now a bunch of broken symlinks.
For now, I've worked around this and pushed commits to salsa, but I'd
like this to be fixed properly.

Could you consider to vendor truetype/liberation2 as a symlink to
truetype/liberation?

[1]: https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2023/06/msg00220.html
[2]: https://packages.debian.org/bookworm/all/fonts-liberation2/filelist
[3]: https://packages.debian.org/sid/all/fonts-liberation/filelist

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 12.0
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 6.1.0-9-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_IN, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set 
to en_US.UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
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