Please update package fonts-liberation to version 2.00.1

[Nikolaus Waxweiler]

Hello font people,
the newer version is finally under the SIL Open Font License and has much expanded script coverage. Please consider updating the package. The only regression is that Liberation Sans Narrow can't be included for license reasons, so that would have to be extracted from 1.07.

Regards,
Nikolaus

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[NoOp (glgxg)]

This was fixed upstream in July 2013... it is now January 2015 - can this package please be updated for Ubuntu?

[Beni Cherniavsky (cben)]

Yes please! Liberation fonts 2.0 have considerably better unicode coverage.
Example why I care: currently the default Ubuntu install has precisely 1(!) monospace font covering Hebrew (FreeMono) and 1 more comes if I install Hebrew language support (Miriam Mono CLM). Ubuntu font family Hebrew is still far from ready:
So Liberation Mono 2.0's added Hebrew coverage (which to my eyes is prettier than FreeMono or Miriam) is a significant improvement.

If this bug can't move forward for some reason, consider instead including fonts-croscore in default install — more or less the same fonts as Liberation 2.0, under different names (e.g. Cousine has monospace Hebrew coverage).

[Jeremy Bícha (jbicha)]

This is done for Ubuntu 16.10 (development):

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/fonts-liberation/2.00.1-2

[Jeremy Bícha (jbicha)]

Re-opening this bug since Debian & Ubuntu have reverted back to version 1

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/fonts-liberation/1:1.07.4-2

The Debian maintainer mentioned that fonts-liberation version 2 might be packaged in a separate package to allow those who want it to install it.

[Jeremy Bícha (jbicha)]

This was fixed by packaging version 2 as fonts-liberation2 in Ubuntu 17.04 Alpha.

This is because the changes in version 2 are controversial and some people prefer the older version.

[Jeremy Bícha (jbicha)]

See https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-fonts/fonts-liberation2.git/tree/debian/README.Debian