DejaVu fonts included with Ubuntu are outdated

[Lior Halphon]

Binary package hint: ttf-dejavu

Ubuntu 11.04 beta 1 uses DejaVu 2.31 where the latest version is 2.33. The latest version includes not only more glyphs and minor revisions, but also major updates to existing glyphs such as an entirely new Hebrew glyph set that greatly improves screen readability.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: ttf-dejavu-core 2.31-1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-7.39-generic 2.6.38
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-7-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Sat Apr 9 20:50:13 2011
Dependencies:

LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Beta i386 (20110330)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=he_IL:en
 LANG=he_IL.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: ttf-dejavu
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Hans Joachim Desserud (hjd)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug 714571, so it is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Feel free to continue to report any other bugs you may find.