[Pkg-fonts-devel] Migrating from fonts-droid to fonts-noto

Jonas Smedegaard dr at jones.dk
Tue Nov 10 09:06:43 UTC 2015


Quoting Vasudev Kamath (2015-11-10 09:39:36)
> Christian PERRIER <bubulle at debian.org> writes:
>
>> Quoting Vasudev Kamath (vasudev at copyninja.info):
>>
>>>> Is this change going to impact the fonts-android-udeb binary 
>>>> package which is now being used within the Debian Installer?
>>>
>>> No, as of now upstream git repository of android source provides 2 
>>> fallback variants DroidSansFallback and DroidSansFallbackFull along 
>>> with DroidSansMono. So this should not be a problem.
>>
>>
>> I think that Kibi's point is more asking "will you rename the udeb 
>> package", which would then require a change in the D-I build 
>> scripts....
>
> Ah okay. No I will not rename the package.
>
> Only change I'm thinking to do is change the font shipped by udeb, 
> currently it ships DroidSansFallback. I'm thinking of changing it to 
> DroidSansFallbackFull will this cause any problems?.

Seems change of font within that udeb can be done in independent of and 
thus tracked as a separate bug than the issue of migrating non-fallback 
fonts to Noto.  I.e. need not delay the transition and need only be 
discussed with those directly involved - no need for distro-wide 
discussion of that :-)

 - Jonas

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