[pkg-cinnamon] Bug#804679: Bug#804679: cinnamon-desktop-environment: Please switch to fonts-noto from fonts-droid

[Maximiliano Curia]

Control: tag -1 + pending

On 10/11/15 16:17, Vasudev Kamath wrote:
> Since Android upstream stopped shipping Droid fonts and its been
> declared that Noto fonts will be superseding the Droid¹² we in
> "Debian Fonts Task Force" team decided to drop fonts-droid package.
> One of your package cinnamon-desktop-environment either
> Depends/Recommends/Suggests/Build-Depends on fonts-droid. I kindly
> request you to do the switch to fonts-noto instead.
> If you are using Fallback variants of Droid fonts, I would like note
> that these fonts will still be shipped as part of new
> fonts-droid-fallback package.
Cinnamon has no strong usage of the droid fonts, only a couple of svg files that use it, but then, are you planning to provide a fontconfig file to use the Noto fonts as a replacement of the Droid ones?

Happy hacking,