[Pkg-fonts-devel] Bug#1078682: fonts-croscore: Please add back SymbolNeu

[Stephan Lachnit]

Package: fonts-croscore
Version: 20201225-2
Severity: wishlist
X-Debbugs-Cc: gunnarhj at debian.org, dr at jones.dk, stephanlachnit at debian.org

SymbolNeu is the only viable alternative to Microsofts "symbol.ttf" font [1].
However, SymbolNeu was dropped in croscore > 1.23.0 unfortunately. I think it
makes sense to add it back to the pacakge, similar to the Noto Mono font. A
download link can be found here [2].

Cheers,
Stephan

[1]:
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/fontconfig/fontconfig/-/blob/main/conf.d/30-metric-
aliases.conf
[2]: https://gsdview.appspot.com/chromeos-
localmirror/distfiles/croscorefonts-1.23.0.tar.gz


-- Package-specific info:
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name               Version          Architecture Description
+++-==================-================-============-=====================================================
ii  fontconfig         2.15.0-1.1       amd64        generic font configuration library - support binaries
ii  libfreetype6:amd64 2.13.2+dfsg-1+b4 amd64        FreeType 2 font engine, shared library files
ii  libfreetype6:i386  2.13.2+dfsg-1+b4 i386         FreeType 2 font engine, shared library files
ii  libxft2:amd64      2.3.6-1+b1       amd64        FreeType-based font drawing library for X

-- System Information:
Debian Release: trixie/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 6.10.4-amd64 (SMP w/16 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

fonts-croscore depends on no packages.

fonts-croscore recommends no packages.

Versions of packages fonts-croscore suggests:
ii  fonts-crosextra-caladea  20200211-2
ii  fonts-crosextra-carlito  20230309-2

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