On Wed, 23 Mar 2016 03:36:33 +0200 Faidon Liambotis <parav...@debian.org> wrote: > Package: ftp.debian.org > Severity: normal > > The MgOpen fonts were released by Magenta, a Greek company, back in > 2005. At the time finding freely-licensed fonts covering Greek glyphs > was hard (DejaVu added the Greek basic alphabet in 2006), so I uploaded > this package in Debian at the time and moved it under the Debian Fonts > Task Force after a few years, where it has been comaintained since. > > In the meantime, the freely-licensed font ecosystem has bloomed and > nowadays there are multiple different choices for commodity uses of > Greek glyphs (DejaVu, Liberation, Droid, Robot/Noto, CrOS etc.). > > MgOpen suffers from several long-standing issues (such as the lack of > hinting, #540206), some of which make it completely unsuitable for > today's use (such as the lack of the Euro sign). > > The font has only seen a couple of releases, the last one being more > than a decade ago; it has been seemingly abandoned by its upstream. It > was wasn't that good to begin with, so noone has stepped up to maintain > it and enhance it and I'm pretty sure noone will given the breadth of > choices nowadays. > > Please remove it from the archive: it's a small maintenance burden but > at this point it does more harm than good by confusing potential users.
It has one rdepend that will have to be switched to use something else first: Checking reverse dependencies... # Broken Depends: fretsonfire: fretsonfire-game Dependency problem found. Please remove the moreinfo tag once that has been addressed. Scott K
