Upstream fonts-droid -> fonts-droid-fallback

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson]

Upstream has moved the Droid Sans Fallback font from the fonts-droid package to a new fonts-droid-fallback package.

http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-fonts/fonts-android.git/

It means that we'll need to change the package name in a bunch of seeds, and in pkg_depends.

This will not be a problem as regards new installs, as far as I can tell, but I fear a problem when people upgrade from 14.04 or 15.10 to 16.04, since there is no dummy package with the old name which depends on the new one.

@Aron: How should we deal with this issue? One way, if Droid Sans Fallback will keep being the default Chinese font in 16.04, is to ask upstream to create a transitional dummy package.

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson (gunnarhj)]

@Vasudev: It struck me that the package name change isn't quite uncomplicated, since fonts-droid is shipped by default on all Ubuntu installs. However, I suggest that we await Aron Xu's comments before doing anything.

[Vasudev Kamath (kamathvasudev)]

On Sun, Dec 20, 2015 at 4:13 AM, Gunnar Hjalmarsson
<email address hidden> wrote:
> @Vasudev: It struck me that the package name change isn't quite
> uncomplicated, since fonts-droid is shipped by default on all Ubuntu
> installs. However, I suggest that we await Aron Xu's comments before
> doing anything.

Sure. But the move was unavoidable since Android upstream dropped
Droid Fonts all together. Providing fonts-droid with only Fallback
font might confuse people so we asked every one to switch to Noto as
per upstream suggestion, we also dropped a fontconfig file which maps
all Droid fonts to Noto (DroidSans and DroidSerif).

And finally I moved Fallback fonts to new package fonts-droid-fallback.

--

Vasudev Kamath
http://copyninja.info

[Aron Xu (happyaron)]

Let's move to fonts-noto-cjk directly, so this issue will not be a problem automatically. What do you think?

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson (gunnarhj)]

Sure, I have no objection. OTOH my view on the Chinese font choice isn't worth much. ;)

Closing this report by marking it as a duplicate of the other bug.

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson (gunnarhj)]

Btw, @Aron: Then it should be ok to sync fonts-android from Debian sid now.

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson (gunnarhj)]

Well, not quite yet... An Ubuntu specific change has not been released yet.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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