Using the 'roboto' package with lua/xelatex the font isn't loaded due to naming missmatch.

Bug #1781815 reported by Roland Vet
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Bug Description

Using this mwe:

    \documentclass{report}
    \usepackage{roboto}
    \begin{document}
    Hello World!
    \end{document}

Only a document gets created using pdflatex but not with lua- or xelatex. latex starts looking for (among others) these fonts:

    Roboto-RegularItalic
    RobotoCondensed-RegularItalic

Which fails because neither of these (and possibly others) aren't packaged with Ubuntu under that name, but as e.g. `Roboto-Italic`, which seems like the proper naming convention.

I mean, if you look on Google's Roboto font site
https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Roboto?selection.family=Roboto
there is mention of a Regular Italic but the zip file you can download packages it as Italic (sans Regular).

So shouldn't latex (roboto.sty) be looking for `Roboto-Italic` and `RobotoCondensed-Italic`?

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04
Package: texlive-fonts-extra 2017.20180305-2
Uname: Linux 4.15.3-041503-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.9-0ubuntu7.2
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: KDE
Date: Sun Jul 15 19:29:28 2018
InstallationDate: Installed on 2016-03-16 (851 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Kubuntu 15.10 "Wily Werewolf" - Release amd64 (20151021)
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: texlive-extra
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to bionic on 2018-05-17 (59 days ago)

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Roland Vet (vet-roland) wrote :
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Roland Vet (vet-roland) wrote :

So I emailed the maintainer and in the updated version of the package this problem was resolved.

His advice is 'that the files should be consistently old or consistently new.'

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