Package: fonts-recommended
Version: 1
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch
Various major desktops now default to fonts-noto-core instead of
fonts-dejavu-core. During a conversation with a fontconfig-config
maintainer on debian-l10n-english about the knock-on effects
("https://lists.debian.org/debian-l10n-english/2023/09/msg00001.html";)
I noticed that the dependency chains ensuring that fonts-noto-core is
actually installed at all are surprisingly weak.
This font package used to be very nearly the only one I needed to have
manually installed to ensure I got everything I was likely to want (as
a linguist I add fonts-unifont just to be on the safe side). Changing
the "Depends: fonts-dejavu-core" to "fonts-dejavu-core |
fonts-noto-core" (or even the reverse) would help the package stay
just as useful on trixie. Possibly more useful, if noto's coverage is
good enough to let me stop installing unifont!
-- System Information:
Debian Release: trixie/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 6.4.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8),
LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
Versions of packages fonts-recommended depends on:
ii fonts-cantarell 0.303.1-1
ii fonts-comic-neue 2.51-4
ii fonts-courier-prime 0+git20190115-3
ii fonts-croscore 20201225-2
ii fonts-crosextra-caladea 20200211-2
ii fonts-crosextra-carlito 20230309-2
ii fonts-dejavu-core 2.37-8
ii fonts-firacode 6.2-2
ii fonts-freefont-otf 20211204+svn4273-2
ii fonts-league-spartan 2.210-1
ii fonts-noto-color-emoji 2.038-1
ii fonts-symbola 2.60-1.1
ii fonts-urw-base35 20200910-7
fonts-recommended recommends no packages.
fonts-recommended suggests no packages.
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JBR with qualifications in linguistics, experience as a Debian
sysadmin, and probably no clue about this particular package
--- control.orig 2020-02-20 19:31:27.000000000 +0000
+++ control 2023-09-06 07:09:55.513613487 +0100
@@ -13,8 +13,8 @@
Architecture: all
Multi-Arch: foreign
Depends: ${misc:Depends},
-# long-time default of most DEs, mostly in the past
- fonts-dejavu-core,
+# older and newer widespread DE defaults
+ fonts-dejavu-core | fonts-noto-core,
# GNOME's default
fonts-cantarell,
# Windows compat: Arial, Courier New, Times New Roman
