On Mon, Jul 17, 2006 at 07:21:47 -0400, Keith Packard wrote: > On Mon, 2006-07-17 at 07:31 +0200, Jan Hudec wrote: > > > The dejavu.diff does NOT fix this bug. It adds DejaVu fonts as alternative > > for the generic aliases, but it puts them after Bitstream Vera. However > > since > > DejaVu fonts are a strict superset of Bitstream Vera ones, they should be > > the /first/ alternative. > > No, they should not. The Deja Vu developers do not have access to > reasonable font design tools, so the glyphs they're creating are not of > high quality, furthermore, they've added glyphs of questionable quality > from other free fonts that are far outside the design space for the Vera > family. > > Deja Vu is becoming a sad reflection of the Vera promise. If you don't > want to use the vera font, don't install it.
Unfortunately occasionally packages appear that depend on
ttf-bitstream-vera, so it's not possible to not install it (or, rather,
it was not possible at some point in time and aptitude won't auto-remove
it as long as it's part of depend alternative afterwards). It, however,
is possible to not install ttf-dejavu.
Other thing is, whether there are any glyphs of questionable quality in
dejavu, that exist in bistream vera. Otherwise it's IMHO better to have
a glyph of questionable quality, than none at all.
Anyway, can you please add an explanation of this situation in
README.Debian and changelog.Debian?
Thank you,
Jan Hudec
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