Bug#626041: sun-java6-fonts: Dropping defoma hints

[Theppitak Karoonboonyanan]

Package: sun-java6-fonts
Version: 6.25-1
Severity: wishlist
Usertags: defoma-removal

As found in a test in Bug #620385 [1], with minimal test program in [2],
both sun-java6 and openjdk VM seem to be able to access fontconfig fonts
without defoma support.

  [1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=620385#25
  [2] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=620385#35

Previously, the defoma hint was misunderstood to be needed for Thai Java
app users, as some Java widgets appear to hard-code Lucida font for Thai
rendering, which is only provided by sun-java6-fonts. But the tests above
found that merely installing the font files in ~/.fonts without defoma
hint also works.

So, the hint can probably be dropped if no non-Java apps are found to rely
on it. Instead, it can be converted to fontconfig snippet.

Note that defoma is to be removed as a proposed release goal [3].

  [3] http://wiki.debian.org/OldPkgRemovals#defoma

-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.38-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=th_TH.utf8, LC_CTYPE=th_TH.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages sun-java6-fonts depends on:
ii  defoma                        0.11.12    Debian Font Manager -- automatic f
ii  sun-java6-jre                 6.25-1     Sun Java(TM) Runtime Environment (

sun-java6-fonts recommends no packages.

sun-java6-fonts suggests no packages.

-- no debconf information