Bug#441691: neverball-common: The package should alternatively suggest ttf-dejavu instead ttf-bitstream-vera

[Jordà Polo]

On Mon, Sep 10, 2007 at 10:19:59PM +0200, Luigi Toscano wrote:
> Package: neverball-common
> Version: 1.4.0-2
> Severity: normal
> 
> The DejaVu fonts are a based on the Bitstream Vera fonts. They support a
> wider set of characters (while Bitstream Vera don't support non-latin
> symbols).

In the current version of neverball, there is no need for non-latin symbols
since it doesn't have i18n support and input is restricted to ascii
characters. (This has changed in the development version, which uses
DejaVu.)

There are probably other fonts other than DejaVu that could work with
neverball, but upstream distributed Bitstream Vera. Also, note that
ttf-bitstream-vera is very small compared to neverball-common or ttf-dejavu.

I don't think supporting more fonts is really worth it, so I don't plan to
fix this bug. However, you will be able to use DejaVu as soon as there is a
new upstream release.