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

Vasudev Kamath vasudev at copyninja.info
Tue Nov 10 10:18:58 UTC 2015


Jonas Smedegaard <dr at jones.dk> writes:

> 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 :-)

Sure thing :-).



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