On Sun, Jan 30, 2022 at 12:01:51AM +0000, Amr Ibrahim wrote: > Am Donnerstag, dem 27.01.2022 um 21:05 -0800 schrieb Ross Vandegrift: > > Is ttf-bitstream-vera going away? > > No, ttf-bitstream-vera is not going away because there are still many > packages that depend on it. > > The real issue of the Bitstream Vera font is that when it's installed, > it takes precedence over the DejaVu font and becomes the default serif, > sans-serif and monospace font on the system, and that's fontconfig's > responsibility. That causes some issues displaying some characters, > which are not supported by Bitstream Vera, in addition to being uglier > than DejaVu. > > Upstream fontconfig fixed that by completely removing Bitstream Vera > from 60-latin.conf: > https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/fontconfig/fontconfig/-/merge_requests/99 > > But that fix has not reached Debian yet because fontconfig has not seen > real maintainer-ship for over a year now: > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=961386 > > So the alternative solution is, if feasible, to drop the dependency on > ttf-bitstream-vera. If not feasible, then we'll just have to wait until > fontconfig is fixed in Debian.
Thanks for the additional info. The pain will be for users who end up having a worse experience due to Bitstream Vera being installed. Since it's just used in EFL examples (and so isn't installed in any search paths for fonts), I will: 1) drop the dependency on ttf-bitstream-vera 2) go back to distributing upstream's copy for the examples This ensures that efl-doc's examples are unchanged, and that users aren't forced to fallback to a worse font option. Thanks, Ross