[Pkg-blender-maintainers] Bug#463749: blender: Use ttf-dejavu instead of ttf-bitstream-vera

[Sven Arvidsson]

Package: blender
Version: 2.45-3
Severity: normal

Hi,

Would it be possible for Blender to depend upon ttf-dejavu instead of
ttf-bitstream-vera? 

The difference between the two isn't huge, but dejavu has a lot of
fixes and is actively maintained. Unless I misunderstand fontconfig,
dejavu is used by default, but vera will be used instead if it's
found, giving users a slightly worse default for "sans" and "serif".

Also, as can be seen in bug 461276, the ttf-bistream-vera maintainer aims
to remove vera, replacing it with dejavu.

Thanks,

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Debian Release: lenny/sid
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  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.24-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages blender depends on:
ii  gettext [libgettextpo0 0.17-2            GNU Internationalization utilities
ii  libavcodec1d           0.cvs20070307-6   ffmpeg codec library
ii  libavformat1d          0.cvs20070307-6   ffmpeg file format library
ii  libavutil1d            0.cvs20070307-6   ffmpeg utility library
ii  libc6                  2.7-6             GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libdc1394-13           1.1.0-5           high level programming interface f
ii  libfreetype6           2.3.5-1+b1        FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii  libgcc1                1:4.3-20080127-1  GCC support library
ii  libgl1-mesa-glx [libgl 7.0.2-4           A free implementation of the OpenG
ii  libglu1-mesa [libglu1] 7.0.2-4           The OpenGL utility library (GLU)
ii  libgsm1                1.0.12-1          Shared libraries for GSM speech co
ii  libjpeg62              6b-14             The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG 
ii  libogg0                1.1.3-3           Ogg Bitstream Library
ii  libopenexr2ldbl        1.2.2-4.4         runtime files for the OpenEXR imag
ii  libpng12-0             1.2.15~beta5-3    PNG library - runtime
ii  libraw1394-8           1.3.0-2           library for direct access to IEEE 
ii  libsdl1.2debian        1.2.13-2          Simple DirectMedia Layer
ii  libstdc++6             4.3-20080127-1    The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  libtheora0             1.0~beta2-3       The Theora Video Compression Codec
ii  libvorbis0a            1.2.0.dfsg-3      The Vorbis General Audio Compressi
ii  libvorbisenc2          1.2.0.dfsg-3      The Vorbis General Audio Compressi
ii  libx11-6               2:1.1.3-1         X11 client-side library
ii  libxi6                 2:1.1.3-1         X11 Input extension library
ii  python-central         0.5.15-0.1        register and build utility for Pyt
ii  python2.4              2.4.4-7           An interactive high-level object-o
ii  zlib1g                 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-11 compression library - runtime

blender recommends no packages.

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