[Pkg-fonts-bugs] Bug#406741: [ttf-dejavu] package description in debian/control is outdated

Davide Viti zinosat at tiscali.it
Sat Jan 20 23:12:26 CET 2007


On Sat, Jan 20, 2007 at 10:14:13PM +0100, Davide Viti wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 14, 2007 at 08:03:22AM +0100, Christian Perrier wrote:
> > The description could be more vague and rather announced that the
> > font's intent is to cover w very wide range of Unicode with a high
> > quality font.
> 
> Here's the best I could come up with so far:
> 
> <proposed_version>
> Description: Vera font family derivate with additional characters
>  Popular FLOSS font based on the Bitstream Vera version 1.10 with
>  the aim to provide a wider range of characters while maintaining the
>  original look and feel. The main goals are quality and range coverage;
>  current direction is towards MES-1 and MES-2 conformance.
>  .
>  DejaVu fonts are intended for use on low-resolution devices (mainly computer
>  screens) but can be used in printing as well.
> </proposed_version>

As pointed out by Eugeniy, "Bitstream" should not be used due to license (problem already
reported in the past with #353462). Here's the update

<proposed_version>
Description: Vera font family derivate with additional characters
 Popular FLOSS font based on the vera font family version 1.10 with
 the aim to provide a wider range of characters while maintaining the
 original look and feel. The main goals are quality and range coverage;
 current direction is towards MES-1 and MES-2 conformance. Available flavours
 are Serif, Sans, Sans Mono.
 .
 DejaVu fonts are intended for use on low-resolution devices (mainly computer
 screens) but can be used in printing as well.
</proposed_version>

regards,
Davide
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