[FFe] Restore "Ubuntu Medium" weights in Ubuntu's binary .deb
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Ayatana Design |
Fix Released
|
High
|
John Lea | ||
ubuntu-font-family-sources (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
|
High
|
Unassigned | ||
Quantal |
Fix Released
|
High
|
Unassigned |
Bug Description
This is a Feature Freeze Exception for Quantal for the 'ttf-ubuntu-
/usr/
/usr/
As it stands Ubuntu's Quantal binary package is deficient and contains only a subset of the files that have otherwise been shipped. This is neither a new upstream version, nor a bugfix-only release, nor a brand new package, but a local distro packaging change.
Benefits:
* Shipping complete package, as is expected by our users, particular those working in DTP
* Enabling theme- and application-
* Fix version number to not override complete builds of the .deb with this copy.
Impacts:
* These by itself does not cause a visible change in the default Ubuntu interface, ie those that are likely to be covered by the Ubuntu Doc Team's screenshots. It will generally cause a one-, or two-line addition to application font selection menus.
* ~337kB of CD space.
* Impacts of other software; For completeness, it should be noted there are broken applications/
The proposed one-line diff in the attached branch consists of a single-line change to 'debian/*.install':
+Ubuntu-M*.ttf /usr/share/
These two files were dropped prior to the Ubuntu 12.04 LTS release for the benefit of Unity-2D, which is no longer shipped as default. Additionally it was uploaded with version number missing '~medium' thus giving no indication that the package shipped by Ubuntu is incomplete, and additionally causing the version in the distro to override otherwise complete builds of the .deb in PPAs. This is oversight that it was not reloaded in complete form on the first day of the Q cycle opening.
tags: | added: dashm udp |
Changed in ayatana-design: | |
importance: | Undecided → Critical |
assignee: | nobody → John Lea (johnlea) |
status: | New → Fix Committed |
Changed in ubuntu-font-family: | |
status: | New → Confirmed |
summary: |
- Add "ubuntu medium" font to Ubuntu + [FFe] Restore "Ubuntu Medium" weights in Ubuntu's binary .deb |
description: | updated |
Changed in ubuntu-font-family-sources (Ubuntu): | |
status: | Confirmed → New |
Changed in ubuntu-font-family-sources (Ubuntu): | |
importance: | Wishlist → High |
Changed in ayatana-design: | |
importance: | Critical → High |
Changed in ubuntu-font-family-sources (Ubuntu Quantal): | |
status: | Triaged → Won't Fix |
Changed in ubuntu-font-family-sources (Ubuntu Quantal): | |
status: | Won't Fix → Triaged |
no longer affects: | ubuntu-font-family-sources (Ubuntu R-series) |
Changed in ayatana-design: | |
status: | Fix Committed → Fix Released |
ubuntu- font-family- sources (0.80-0ubuntu2) precise; urgency=low
* Don't ship Ubuntu Medium ("Ubuntu Light" "Bold") because
of issues with the font/toolkit stacks on Ubuntu not working.
Workaround for (LP: #744812).
-- Florian Boucault <email address hidden> Wed, 21 Mar 2012 11:02:09 +0000