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fonts-android package

Upstream fonts-droid -> fonts-droid-fallback

Bug #1527938 reported by Gunnar Hjalmarsson
This bug report is a duplicate of:  Bug #1468027: change default CJK fonts to Noto CJK. Edit Remove
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fonts-android (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

Upstream has moved the Droid Sans Fallback font from the fonts-droid package to a new fonts-droid-fallback package.

http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-fonts/fonts-android.git/

It means that we'll need to change the package name in a bunch of seeds, and in pkg_depends.

This will not be a problem as regards new installs, as far as I can tell, but I fear a problem when people upgrade from 14.04 or 15.10 to 16.04, since there is no dummy package with the old name which depends on the new one.

@Aron: How should we deal with this issue? One way, if Droid Sans Fallback will keep being the default Chinese font in 16.04, is to ask upstream to create a transitional dummy package.

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Gunnar Hjalmarsson (gunnarhj) wrote :

@Vasudev: It struck me that the package name change isn't quite uncomplicated, since fonts-droid is shipped by default on all Ubuntu installs. However, I suggest that we await Aron Xu's comments before doing anything.

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Vasudev Kamath (kamathvasudev) wrote : Re: [Bug 1527938] Re: Upstream fonts-droid -> fonts-droid-fallback

On Sun, Dec 20, 2015 at 4:13 AM, Gunnar Hjalmarsson
<email address hidden> wrote:
> @Vasudev: It struck me that the package name change isn't quite
> uncomplicated, since fonts-droid is shipped by default on all Ubuntu
> installs. However, I suggest that we await Aron Xu's comments before
> doing anything.

Sure. But the move was unavoidable since Android upstream dropped
Droid Fonts all together. Providing fonts-droid with only Fallback
font might confuse people so we asked every one to switch to Noto as
per upstream suggestion, we also dropped a fontconfig file which maps
all Droid fonts to Noto (DroidSans and DroidSerif).

And finally I moved Fallback fonts to new package fonts-droid-fallback.

--

Vasudev Kamath
http://copyninja.info

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Aron Xu (happyaron) wrote :

Let's move to fonts-noto-cjk directly, so this issue will not be a problem automatically. What do you think?

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Gunnar Hjalmarsson (gunnarhj) wrote :

Sure, I have no objection. OTOH my view on the Chinese font choice isn't worth much. ;)

Closing this report by marking it as a duplicate of the other bug.

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Gunnar Hjalmarsson (gunnarhj) wrote :

Btw, @Aron: Then it should be ok to sync fonts-android from Debian sid now.

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Gunnar Hjalmarsson (gunnarhj) wrote :

Well, not quite yet... An Ubuntu specific change has not been released yet.

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in fonts-android (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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