[Pkg-fonts-devel] Bug#974150: Bug#974150: Noto Mono looks completely different after upgrade

[Steinar H. Gunderson]

On Tue, Nov 10, 2020 at 07:46:55PM +0100, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
> Why the severity?
> 
> Visual changes does not seem reason release-critical to me.
> 
> "completely broken" need more than a vague suspicion, IMHO.

Feel free to downgrade. The background for the severity: I installed the
package to get a specific font, and that font suddenly disappeared and
was replaced by a completely different font. For me, that's completely
broken. If it's by intention, well... perhaps I'll need to pin the old one
indefinitely, then.

> Google dropped Noto Mono a few years ago.  We kept it alive, until 
> recently when Google re-introduced Noto Mono.

Huh, OK. But why is the web font different from the .ttf, then?
It doesn't make a lot of sense.

If I download the .ttf from https://www.google.com/get/noto/,
it looks like the one in stable. And https://github.com/googlefonts/noto-fonts
doesn't list any “Noto Mono” at all except “Noto Sans Mono”. Where's this new
font coming from?

> This shows which actual fonts are most likely used:
> 
>   fc-match -s 'Noto Mono' | head -n 5

Looks fine for me:

kos:~> fc-match -s 'Noto Mono' | head -n 5      

NotoMono-Regular.ttf: "Noto Mono" "Regular"
Vera.ttf: "Bitstream Vera Sans" "Roman"
DejaVuSans.ttf: "DejaVu Sans" "Book"
DejaVuSans-Bold.ttf: "DejaVu Sans" "Bold"
DejaVuSans-Oblique.ttf: "DejaVu Sans" "Oblique"


> 
> 
> Thanks for reporting this,
> 
>  - Jonas
> 
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