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

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson]

On 2023-08-20 21:34, Raphaël Halimi wrote:
> As I understand it, this will make fontconfig select DejaVu Sans Mono
> on most desktop installations (since libreoffice depends on both
> sets), and Noto Mono on a handful of installations, namely, minimal
> installations which will have only fonts-noto-{core,mono} installed,
> and not fonts-dejavu-{core,mono}.

That's my understanding too.

> Thus, the default font for the "Monospace" alias will depend on the
> installed packages.

That's always the case, isn't it? The output of "fc-match" or "fc-match 
mono" depends on a combo of available fonts and the font configuration.

As an example, and since I work with Ubuntu as well, Ubuntu 23.04 also 
has fontconfig 2.14, but most users haven't noticed since 
fonts-noto-core is not installed by default (neither is the libreoffice 
binary, which explains the difference to Debian in this respect). Ubuntu 
23.10 will include fonts-noto-core, though, so there is an ongoing work 
with deciding both the set of pre-installed font packages and possible 
adjustments of the configuration.

> I'm okay with that.

Good. :)

> Thanks for fixing it :)

N.p.

> Yes, let's see what users think of the change. I have good hope that
> most people will be satisfied.

Let's keep our fingers crossed.

/ Gunnar