[Debian-in-workers] Bug#368282: ttf-malayalam-fonts: replace malayalam.ttf with MalOtf.ttf

[Mahesh T. Pai]

Package: ttf-malayalam-fonts
Version: 1:0.4.7
Severity: wishlist


According to the changelog, version 1:0.4.4 of this package removed
MalOtf.ttf sinct it was identical to malayalam.ttf.

IMHO, this is not appropriate, since MalOtf.ttf contains the OpenType
layout tables while malayalam.ttf does not.

The better choice would have been to take out malayalam.ttf and retain
MalOtf.ttf.

AFAIK, while most rendering engines support OpenType fonts, the glyph
substitution information for non-OpenType fonts varies from font to
font. In particular, malayalam.ttf is not doing _any_ kind of glyph
substitution on present versions of pango; I do not know whether this
due to any changes made in  pango or some problem with the font file.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.16-1-686
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages ttf-malayalam-fonts depends on:
ii  defoma                        0.11.8-0.1 Debian Font Manager -- automatic f

ttf-malayalam-fonts recommends no packages.

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