Sync fonts-cantarell 0.100 (universe) from Debian experimental (main) [blocked]

[Jeremy Bícha]

https://git.gnome.org/browse/cantarell-fonts/tree/NEWS

There is a new version of Cantarell. The new version is a complete redesign.

0.0.25 offers
Cantarell-BoldOblique.otf Cantarell-Bold.otf Cantarell-Oblique.otf Cantarell-Regular.otf

0.100 offers
Cantarell-Bold.otf Cantarell-ExtraBold.otf Cantarell-Light.otf Cantarell-Regular.otf Cantarell-Thin.otf

0.100 has no Cyrillic coverage but 0.0.25 does.

Adam Borowski has a script at http://ix.io/M14 (it has a dependency on libfont-freetype-perl) that you can run to get a list of the unicode characters covered. You can diff the two lists and then look up the glyphs in gucharmap or something.

I think the ugliest problem with missing glyphs is when a word will have to fallback to a different font for a single missing character.

Ubuntu doesn't use Cantarell by default, but the "vanilla" GNOME session does. There is a proposal to use Cantarell Light for some elements of GNOME Shell 3.28, but it should fall back to regular Cantarell if that's not available. (Cantarell Light is new in 0.100)

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/issues/45

Changelog entries since current bionic version 0.0.25-4:

fonts-cantarell (0.100-2) experimental; urgency=medium

  * Fix font installation directory
  * Drop local version of AppStream metadata since upstream provides it now

 -- Jeremy Bicha <email address hidden> Fri, 16 Feb 2018 22:06:29 -0500

fonts-cantarell (0.100-1) experimental; urgency=medium

  * New upstream release
    - Font has been redesigned. Note that glyph coverage in the font is
      not as complete as in the previous release.
  * Build with meson
  * Build with fontmake and psautohint instead of fontforge
  * Build-Depend on appstream
  * debian/copyright: Add prebuilt fonts to Files-Excluded
  * Bump debhelper compat to 11

 -- Jeremy Bicha <email address hidden> Mon, 12 Feb 2018 11:19:19 -0500

[Matthias Klose (doko)]

synced

[Jeremy Bícha (jbicha)]

I believe we don't want this in bionic because of the regressions (particularly in Cyrillic).

Also, there was a Fedora complaint about spacing. I think Fedora 28 (May 2018) will even include the old Cantarell with plans to use the new one for Fedora 29, unless Cantarell receives an improved version soon.

[Matthias Klose (doko)]

Removing packages from bionic-proposed:
 fonts-cantarell 0.101-1 in bionic
  fonts-cantarell 0.101-1 in bionic amd64
  fonts-cantarell 0.101-1 in bionic arm64
  fonts-cantarell 0.101-1 in bionic armhf
  fonts-cantarell 0.101-1 in bionic i386
  fonts-cantarell 0.101-1 in bionic ppc64el
  fonts-cantarell 0.101-1 in bionic s390x
Comment: lp: #1750254, fonts-cantarell removal requested
1 package successfully removed.

[Jeremy Bícha (jbicha)]

I'm reopening the bug because we are still interested in tracking this update even if it won't make it into 18.04 LTS.

For instance, it will show at
https://people.canonical.com/~platform/desktop/versions.html

[Jeremy Bícha (jbicha)]

This bug was fixed in the package fonts-cantarell - 0.110-1

---------------
fonts-cantarell (0.110-1) unstable; urgency=medium

  * New upstream release
  * Add revert-require-new-fontmake-psautohint.patch:
    Build with the fontmake and psautohint versions we currently have
  * Update Vcs fields for migration to https://salsa.debian.org/
  * Release to unstable

 -- Jeremy Bicha <email address hidden> Mon, 03 Sep 2018 12:16:14 -0400

fonts-cantarell (0.101-1) experimental; urgency=medium

  * New upstream release
  * Drop obsolete fontconfig symlink (Closes: #891589)
  * Fix font installation directory

 -- Jeremy Bicha <email address hidden> Thu, 15 Mar 2018 07:59:15 -0400

fonts-cantarell (0.100-2) experimental; urgency=medium

  * Fix font installation directory
  * Drop local version of AppStream metadata since upstream provides it now

 -- Jeremy Bicha <email address hidden> Fri, 16 Feb 2018 22:06:29 -0500

fonts-cantarell (0.100-1) experimental; urgency=medium

  * New upstream release
    - Font has been redesigned. Note that glyph coverage in the font is
      not as complete as in the previous release.
  * Build with meson
  * Build with fontmake and psautohint instead of fontforge
  * Build-Depend on appstream
  * debian/copyright: Add prebuilt fonts to Files-Excluded
  * Bump debhelper compat to 11

 -- Jeremy Bicha <email address hidden> Mon, 12 Feb 2018 11:19:19 -0500

[Jeremy Bícha (jbicha)]

Today's Cantarell release includes a "draft" of Cyrillic support. I figure it's close enough now we might as well get the new version.

For remaining missing glyphs, see
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/cantarell-fonts/issues/26