Hi, On Tue, Oct 11, 2016 at 09:01:41PM +0400, Yousuf Philips wrote: > I volunteer with the libreoffice design team and have recently been looking > at its font selection. So i looked at the libreoffice package in ubuntu and > wanted to suggest some changes be made related to fonts. > > * Liberation Fonts (fonts-liberation) are the default fonts used in > libreoffice so they should be set to be a required dependency of libreOffice > core (libreoffice-core), rather than a recommended dependency in the > libreoffice meta package (libreoffice).
No, they shouldn't. LO doesn't NEED them. That's what Depends: are for. One doesn't need fonts-liberation for LO being working. One could choose an other font. And be it proprietary Arial. (And note Recommends are handled as Depends per default by apt.) > * Deja Vu Fonts (fonts-dejavu) and Gentium Fonts (fonts-sil-gentium-basic) > are set as required package of the meta package when they should be required > package of libreoffice core, as it is possible to install selected parts of > libreoffice without using the meta package. Yes. And those admins who do that should know what they do. Or install the fonts separately. Otherwise: Same as above. The current package Recommends come out of https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=836416 > * C-Fonts (fonts-crosextra-caladea, fonts-crosextra-carlito), MS Core Fonts > (ttf-mscorefonts-installer) and Linux Libertine Fonts (fonts-linuxlibertine) > should be set as recommended dependencies for libreoffice core. # apt-cache show libreoffice-common | grep Recomm Recommends: fonts-liberation | ttf-mscorefonts-installer, python3-uno (>= 4.4.0~beta2), libexttextcat-data At least partly done. I buy your reasoning that people want some sort of Liberation or the MS core fonts, that's why -common (arch-indep, so better matching) *already* Recommends it. (See also https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=747132.) For the C fonts they are Recommends of the metapackage. I think making them being installed everywhere is a overkill. > * TDF builds of libreoffice since 4.0 ship with additional fonts like Open > Sans, PT Serif, Source Code Pro and Source Sans Pro, but i didnt see > packages for any of these. Yes, so get them packaged. Not LOs job. It's not even LOs job to ship fonts. See https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=827911 > When it comes to icons, 5.3 will be shipping a breeze dark icon theme which > when packaged should have a dependency for the standard breeze icon theme, > similar to sifr. No, it actually should be in the -style-breeze itself as it's a breeze variant. That's already done in git. Regards, Rene
