Bug#1028897: fontconfig-config: default latin fonts changed from DejaVu to Noto

[Raphaël Halimi]

reassign -1 fontconfig
retitle -1 fontconfig: wrong name for the Noto monospace font
merge -1 1028643
tags -1 patch
thanks

Le 14/01/2023 à 19:45, Raphaël Halimi a écrit :
> If you wish to keep DejaVu as default, here is a simple patch to do that.

Ok, scratch this patch. I know that Debian don't like to diverge from 
upstream (and I'm a maintainer myself), so this was not a good idea. 
Moreover, the change from DejaVu to Noto was not the root cause of the 
problem.

The problem is that the monospace Noto font is actually "Noto Mono" and 
not "Noto Sans Mono" (probably a typo on upstream's part).

If you use a font manager you'll see that there is indeed a font called 
"Noto Sans Mono", but if you filter them out to list only the monospace 
fonts, you can see that there's no font called "Noto Sans Mono" among 
them, but there is one called "Noto Mono".

Using this one (which I now believe is the "real" monospace font from 
Noto) as default for the monospace family does fix both Xterm and 
gnome-terminal (and probably other terminals too).

This new patch fixes what I think is actually a bug (and which probably 
needs to be forwarded to upstream).

Regards,

-- 
Raphaël Halimi
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