Package: fonts-vlgothic
Version: 20200720-1
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

Running Wine's tests against the 20200720 VL Gothic fonts finds some
inconsistencies that seem related to the xAvgCharWidth in the OS/2
table. From Wine bug 52951 [1]:

Sagawa wrote:
> From my viewpoint, this is a bug in font.
> VL Gothic ver.20200720 has a strange xAvgCharWidth value, 958, in
> OS/2 table. Generally, xAvgCharWidth is half of the unitsPerEm for
> Japanese fixed-pitch font.
> Previous version of VL Gothic, e.g. 20141206, had 500 xAvgCharWidth.
>
> I've tested the font face on Windows. It shows unnatural horizontal
> spaces between Kanji characters. However, VL Gothic mainly designed
> for Linux. I guess it doesn't matter on Linux.

The specific Wine test failures are:
font.c:4885: Test failed: expected 36 [tmAveCharWidth*2], got 19 [gmCellIncX] 
(VL Gothic:136 [lfCharSet])

[1] https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=52951#c1

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 11.3
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 5.10.0-10-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU threads)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_WARN, TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), 
LANGUAGE=fr:en_US
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

-- no debconf information

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