I filed this bugreport today, but forgot to add debian-boot as X-Debbugs-CC, so I'm resending to debian-boot here a copy of the bug text:
Please keep debian-boot in CC Holger Wansing <hwans...@mailbox.org> wrote: > Package: fonts-freefont-udeb > Severity: normal > > > I just noticed that Gujarati is no longer unusable, because of broken font > (all characters replaced by placeholder, see attached screenshot). > > This seems to be related to the new fonts-freefont-udeb package, which > replaced ttf-freefont-udeb: > When I use the ttf-freefont-udeb package from Stretch as localudeb to build > the netboot-gtk target here locally, Gujarati fonts seem to be fine again > (see second screenshot). > > > Holger 911705: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=911705 -- Holger Wansing <hwans...@mailbox.org> PGP-Finterprint: 496A C6E8 1442 4B34 8508 3529 59F1 87CA 156E B076