[Debian-in-workers] Understanding fontconfig conffiles

[Vasudev Kamath]

Hello all,

Now I've a really tricky question. All fonts in ttf-indic-fonts source
package had its own fontconfig conf file which starts as
90-ttf-lang-fonts.conf. This file is used to specify which will be
system wide default font for that language.

Now I don't know how fontconfig behaves on 2 conf file for a
language. In fact I don't know how fontconfig and its configuration
under /etc/fonts/conf.avail is actually used.

Scenario is now that we are splitting ttf-indic-fonts there will be 2
types of package one with active upstream which goes into its own
package and one without active upstream which goes into
fonts-$LANG-extra for which Debian-IN will be acting as upstream. Some
upstream provides their own conf file like lohit project does. So if I
install 2 separate conf file lets say 90-fonts-lohit-knda.conf and
90-fonts-knda-extra.conf how will fontconfig reacts to this? I feel
this is a serious issue because language community won't like their
default font to be changed all of a sudden.

So if some one can help me resolve this issue. It will be really great
:)

Best Regards
-- 
Vasudev Kamath