Comment 24 for bug 2034986

On 2023-09-26 22:32, Gunnar Hjalmarsson wrote:
> But one of the changes in mantic is that no font is safely present
> (i.e. the default ones are "Recommends:" only). So later, when people
> will upgrade from 23.10 to 24.04, just using "Sans" temporarily may
> not be the best option. And changing it to a specific font family is
> tricky, since we don't know if the user has uninstalled some of the
> default font packages.
>
> So my thought is: Can this be a reason to let desktop-common depend
> on, and not only recommend, some font package after all? And if so,
> which package would be suitable for the purpose?

To make it easier to keep 'the temporary font' approach in 24.04 — if that is what we want by then — I added a hard dependency on fonts-dejavu-core to desktop-common. No upstream changes to the DejaVu fonts have been made the last 6 years, so it's more or less unmaintained, which in this context is an advantage.