TeX Live is not going to be packaged any time soon for Ubuntu or Debian :( There are no people that have time to do that. Which results in these kind of problems. So waiting for that is not an issue.
Shipping the TTF is also not a good solution as again users might get font conflicts and/or you need to maintain that you have the latest version too. Is Roboto the only font which is suitable as fallback font? Otherwise, you could implement the following fallback with graceful degradation: Roboto -> FreeFont -> DejaVu. Than for sure one of those fonts will be picked up via fontconfig. If none is found, a warning can be presented to the user to install one of those fonts. That leaves for maximum flexibility. When the font dependencies are recommended or suggested, most users will pull in those packages anyway. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1593711 Title: Drop unneeded font dependency in birdfont To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/birdfont/+bug/1593711/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
