Bug#1028897: fontconfig: wrong name for the Noto monospace font

Gunnar Hjalmarsson debian at gunnar.cc
Sat Aug 19 15:04:21 BST 2023


Hi again,

As you may have seen, I submitted <https://bugs.debian.org/1050043> and 
fixed it. Thanks for mentioning it!

On 2023-08-17 15:34, Raphaël Halimi wrote:
> IMHO, if Debian wants to follow the upstream fontconfig default to
> use the Noto fonts, the system should work without the DejaVu
> packages installed, so it would make more sense to patch fontconfig
> to use Noto Mono as a default and keep the "Noto look" across the
> whole system, than to go back to DejaVu Sans Mono.

As regards "Noto look", and despite of the name "Noto Mono", personally 
I think that DejaVu Sans Mono aligns better with Noto Sans/Serif than 
Noto Mono does. Look at the letter 'g', for instance.

Also:

* If Debian would change the default monospace font, we would not follow 
upstream. That's true whether we would pick Noto Mono or DejaVu Sans Mono.

* There were reasons why I broke out DejaVu Sans Mono to its own 
package. :) Given that change, it's possible to install 
fonts-dejavu-mono without installing fonts-dejavu-core.

For those reasons I disagree with the quoted statement.

Another question is if the Noto Sans Mono deficiency is important enough 
to motivate a Debian level change in this respect. I don't know. 
@Fabian, I sent this reply to you as well in the hope to broaden the 
discussion a bit.

It's worth mentioning that the fonts-noto packages in Debian ship almost 
3 years old fonts. An update to latest upstream would be highly 
desirable. Possibly Noto Sans Mono has improved.

-- 
Cheers,
Gunnar



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