[Pkg-fonts-devel] Bug#810013: Bug#810013: fonts-droid: Please drop Droid Mono and recommend fonts-noto-mono which provides its successor

[Jonas Smedegaard]

Quoting Vasudev Kamath (2016-01-05 21:06:19)
> Jonas Smedegaard <dr at jones.dk> writes:
>> Droid Mono has been renamed upstream to Noto Mono.
>>
>> Debian package fonts-noto-mono ships the newly named font, and also 
>> provides a fontconfig hint file to handle alias for old name.
>>
>> Please therefore drop Droid Mono, and have the package recommend
>> fonts-noto-mono.
>
> Umm this is very quick :-). So what do you suggest create a meta 
> package to pull down the fonts-noto-mono?.
>
> Any suggestion is fine.

My suggestion is - exactly as suggested above - to a) drop the font 
"Droid Mono", and b) have the package recommend fonts-noto-mono.

Is that a problem? I don't understand why you talk about complicating 
things further...

 - Jonas

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