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

[Arne Goetje]

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Kartik Mistry wrote:
> On 8/29/07, Christian Perrier <bubulle at debian.org> wrote:
>> Quoting Arne Goetje (arne.goetje at canonical.com):
>>> I'm in charge of i18n support in Ubuntu.
>>> As I'm going to repackage the ttf-indic-fonts packages, I want to make
>>> sure that the fontconfig settings are correct.
>>>
>>> I'm repackaging the fonts to split the packages into a -core and an
>>> - -extra packages, the -core packages only contain the minimum required
>>> fonts for the Live CD, while the -extra packages contain the remaining
>>> fonts.
>> In my opinion, this split could probably be done also in Debian, in a
>> general effort to minimize divergences between Debian and Ubuntu.
> 
> Hi,
> 
> A really good idea. Jaldhar, what do you think?
> 
> One font for each language is sufficient for -core package. Instead of
> -core for each language, I suggest to have ttf-indic-fonts-core, which
> contains 1 fonts for each languages.
> 
> Or I misunderstood the idea ;) ?
> 
No, you didn't. :)

Although, I planned to have one -core and one -extra package for each
script... All core fonts in one package would mean the -extra packages
depend on the -core package? Or how do we make sure that the fonts are
not duplicate on the users' systems?
Do Indian users usually install all Indic fonts, or only those for the
language they speak?

If everyone agrees, do you want to do the change in the debian package
first and I sync from there?

Otherwise I would need a list of preferred fonts for each script in
order to change the package in Ubuntu first.

Cheers
Arne
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