[Debian-in-workers] Question about Sans/Serif aliases

[Mahesh T. Pai]

Arne Goetje said on Tue, Aug 28, 2007 at 02:46:58PM +0800,:

 > Some of the serif fonts surprisingly use sans-serif Latin glyphs, however...

Yes, they do; no clue why the authors do that. 

 > 2. How well are these fonts maintained? I have seen that some fonts have
 > changed drastically between 0.4.9 and 0.5.0, some losing a lot of
 > precomposed ligature glyphs. I've also seen that there is a attempt to

I guess changes were due to  a bug fix?? Can somebody please clarify
whether the fixes were by the package maintainers or authors? 


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