Package: ttf-larabie
Severity: wishlist
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There is currently no easy way for a user to know which fonts are in the
package.
As an example, I had a bad experience this week with Scribus telling me
that the 'Minya Nouvelle Bold' font was not installed on my system (the
font was used in a document I received). I thus proceeded to synaptic to
find a package which provided it. It was of no help at all.
After several searches on the Web with the font name, I could find an
old post[1] which showed under which path this font was installed into.
From that I deduced the package name. Painful and far from obvious! I
indeed cannot see what I could have done had the post not been found.
It would have been so much easier if the font name had been included in
the package description (so that the synaptic query would have found it).
I have discussed about the matter w/ Erich, the package maintainer and
he pointed out that the package contains more than 100 fonts, something
which makes the font-name-in-the-description approach a little bit
impractical. There is surely a clean way to do that however, which is
why I am filing this enhancement request (it might in fact apply to all
font packages).
Thanks for your consideration,
Vincent
[1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-kde/2003/05/msg00081.html
--- System information. ---
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-mactel
Debian Release: lenny/sid
500 testing ftp.fr.debian.org
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Depends (Version) | Installed
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