[Pkg-fonts-devel] Japanese Font Transition (step for applications)

[Hideki Yamane]

On Thu, 20 Nov 2008 14:51:28 +0100
Josselin Mouette <joss at debian.org> wrote:
> Le jeudi 20 novembre 2008 à 22:08 +0900, Junichi Uekawa a écrit :
> > You are correct.  I'm a bit ambivalent on that, since we've seen a
> > pattern that new and better fonts pop up every year (full-featured
> > free fonts are a very nascent thing in Japanese), and I think a
> > standard tasksel installation of Debian should already satisfy the
> > dependency with a good enough font of the year.
> 
> In which case the correct approach, I think, is to remove all the
> ttf-japanese-* in Provides:, and upload new ttf-japanese-gothic/mincho
> packages that depend on a set of alternative fonts, with a reasonable
> default.

 Does it mean that 
  - craete virtual "ttf-japanese-gothic/mincho" package
  - it depends on ttf-vlgothic or so
 
 Is it correct? If so, I'll make package for that and do ITP.


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 Hideki Yamane     henrich @ debian.or.jp/iijmio-mail.jp
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