[Pkg-fonts-devel] missing letters

[Fabian Greffrath]

Hello again,

Am 06.10.2021 16:07, schrieb Claus-Dieter Simm:
> thank you for your advice.

you are welcome!

> @ /etc/fonts/conf.d/30-metric-aliases.conf
> In Debian V10 and V11 these two files are identical. I was able to
> check this because I still have the version 10 on a separate partition
> available.

This is good to know, thanks!

> @ uninstall "fonts-urw-base35"
> It is not possible to uninstall this font because I would have to
> uninstall other applications first. Among other things also gnome (see
> below). I cannot do this.

Ah, sure, ghostscript depends on it. Sorry for the bogus advice.

> @ fonts-texgyre "package
> I installed that. But has brought no change.

Alright, was worth a try.

> I decided to try a workaround and took an unconventional route.
> In runlevel 1 I have deleted /etc/fonts, /usr/share/fontconfig and
> /usr/share/fonts and replaced them with the corresponding directories
> from version 10.

Well, that's a rather drastic means to solve issues. A full directory 
diff of /etc/fonts between Debian 10 and 11 would have been interesting, 
but I guess that's not possible anymore.

Seems like you solved the issue by wiping out 
/usr/share/fonts/opentype/urw-base35 and not copying it back, because 
the Opentype variants of these fonts have just been added between Debian 
10 and 11.

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=939197

> This will display all characters correctly. I'll see what happens when
> the fonts are updated through an update.

Glad you sorted it out at least on your end. ;)

Cheers,

  - Fabian