Bug#368282: [Debian-in-workers] Bug#368282: ttf-malayalam-fonts: replace malayalam.ttf with MalOtf.ttf

[Soumyadip Modak]

Will work on the package accordingly, thanks for the inputs.

Expect a new package by the next weekend.

On 5/21/06, Mahesh T. Pai <paivakil at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Package: ttf-malayalam-fonts
> Version: 1:0.4.7
> Severity: wishlist
>
>
> According to the changelog, version 1:0.4.4 of this package removed
> MalOtf.ttf sinct it was identical to malayalam.ttf.
>
> IMHO, this is not appropriate, since MalOtf.ttf contains the OpenType
> layout tables while malayalam.ttf does not.
>
> The better choice would have been to take out malayalam.ttf and retain
> MalOtf.ttf.
>
> AFAIK, while most rendering engines support OpenType fonts, the glyph
> substitution information for non-OpenType fonts varies from font to
> font. In particular, malayalam.ttf is not doing _any_ kind of glyph
> substitution on present versions of pango; I do not know whether this
> due to any changes made in  pango or some problem with the font file.
>
>
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: testing/unstable
>   APT prefers unstable
>   APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
> Architecture: i386 (i686)
> Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
> Kernel: Linux 2.6.16-1-686
> Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
>
> Versions of packages ttf-malayalam-fonts depends on:
> ii  defoma                        0.11.8-0.1 Debian Font Manager --
> automatic f
>
> ttf-malayalam-fonts recommends no packages.
>
> -- no debconf information
>
>
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