Please apply the upstream commit to drop Bitstream Vera fonts
Bug #1958084 reported by
Amr Ibrahim
This bug affects 1 person
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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| fontconfig (Debian) |
Fix Released
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Unknown
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| fontconfig (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
Bug Description
Upstream dropped Bitstream Vera fonts, please apply that fix in the Ubuntu package.
Rationale:
DejaVu font extends the Bitstream Vera font, and is already installed by default. Besides, the Bitstream Vera font is very obsolete, looks worse than DejaVu and sometimes as a negative side effect it takes over as a default font when installed (without DejaVu).
After applying the upstream fix, this Ubuntu patch becomes obsolete (03_prefer_
https:/
You may also think about updating the whole package to an up-to-date snapshot, since the last Debian/Ubuntu version update was in 2018.
| Changed in fontconfig (Debian): | |
| status: | Unknown → Confirmed |
| Changed in fontconfig (Debian): | |
| status: | Confirmed → Fix Released |
Revision history for this message
| Gunnar Hjalmarsson (gunnarhj) wrote | #1 |
| Changed in fontconfig (Ubuntu): | |
| status: | New → Fix Released |
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Fixed also in Ubuntu.