** Description changed:
- The "ubuntu medium" font (see http://font.ubuntu.com/ ) seems to be
- missing from Ubuntu.
+ This is a Feature Freeze Exception for Quantal for the 'ttf-ubuntu-font-
+ family' binary package, which is built from the source package 'ubuntu-
+ font-family-sources'. The only change would be to restore two '.ttf'
+ font files that were not shipped for the final release of Precise, but
+ which were otherwise continually present in the source package all
+ along. The two files are the following and together take up 691kB of
+ installed disk space (~337kB compressed on the CD):
- This font is required urgently for the 12.10 Dash, it would be much
- appreciated if you could add it to Ubuntu.
+ /usr/share/fonts/truetype/ubuntu-font-family/Ubuntu-M.ttf (Ubuntu Medium)
+ /usr/share/fonts/truetype/ubuntu-font-family/Ubuntu-MI.ttf (Ubuntu Medium
Italic)
- Thanks!
+ As it stands Ubuntu's Quantal binary package is deficient and contains
+ only a subset of the files that have otherwise been shipped. This is
+ neither a new upstream version, nor a bugfix-only release, nor a brand
+ new package, but a local distro packaging change.
+
+ Benefits:
+ * Shipping complete package, as is expected by our users, particular those
working in DTP
+ * Enabling theme- and application-developers to be more creative in
producing innovative human-optimised interfaces for the default software set
shipping in Ubuntu
+ * Fix version number to not override complete builds of the .deb with this
copy.
+
+ Impacts:
+ * These by itself does not cause a visible change in the default Ubuntu
interface, ie those that are likely to be covered by the Ubuntu Doc Team's
screenshots. It will generally cause a one-, or two-line addition to
application font selection menus.
+ * ~337kB of CD space.
+ * Impacts of other software; For completeness, it should be noted there are
broken applications/toolkits out there: Some tools using toolkits and
applications make incorrect assumptions that the number of weights in a font
where there are more than just the "simple four" of
Regular/Italic/Bold/Bold-Italic. These applications already behave
sub-optimally in the case of other advanced multi-weight fonts shipped in
Ubuntu, such as 'fonts-linuxlibertine'; and this is not the fault of the
upstream Ubuntu Font Family offering. Those applications (including Inkscape,
Unity-2D in the case of Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, will remain broken until they and
their underlying are fixed.
+
+ The proposed one-line diff in the attached branch consists of a single-
+ line change to 'debian/*.install':
+
+ +Ubuntu-M*.ttf /usr/share/fonts/truetype/ubuntu-font-family
+
+ These two files were dropped prior to the Ubuntu 12.04 LTS release for
+ the benefit of Unity-2D, which is no longer shipped as default.
+ Additionally it was uploaded with version number missing '~medium' thus
+ giving no indication that the package shipped by Ubuntu is incomplete,
+ and additionally causing the version in the distro to override otherwise
+ complete builds of the .deb in PPAs. This is oversight that it was not
+ reloaded in complete form on the first day of the Q cycle opening.
** Changed in: ubuntu-font-family-sources (Ubuntu)
Status: Confirmed => New
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[FFe] Restore "Ubuntu Medium" weights in Ubuntu's binary .deb
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