[Pkg-fonts-devel] Updating fonts-noto and merging fonts-croscore

Vasudev Kamath vasudev at copyninja.info
Sat Nov 21 12:28:37 UTC 2015


Fabian Greffrath <fabian at debian.org> writes:

> Am Montag, den 16.11.2015, 11:22 +0100 schrieb Fabian Greffrath:
>> Please note that none of the fontconfig files currently shipped in
>> fonts-croscore are necessary anymore to register the fonts as metric-
>> compatible alternatives to Arial, Times and Courier. The last
>> remaining
>> fontconfig snippet was for the Symbol font which doesn't seem to be
>> part of the family anymore.
>
> I.e. a debian/fonts-croscore.maintscript file will be required to get
> rid of these files on upgrade.

Ah thanks, I had totally forgotten about maintscript part. I will
include this.

Now one more question, do you think I need to place news of Symbol fonts
being dropped in fonts-croscore.NEWS file? Or user might not know that
symbols font vanished.



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