Bug#804683: josm: Please switch to fonts-noto from fonts-droid

[Vasudev Kamath]

Hi Bas,

Bas Couwenberg <sebastic at xs4all.nl> writes:

> Control: tags -1 upstream
> Control: forwarded -1 https://josm.openstreetmap.de/ticket/12085
>
> Hi Vasudev,
>
> On 2015-11-10 16:46, Vasudev Kamath wrote:
>> Since Android upstream stopped shipping Droid fonts and its been
>> declared that Noto fonts will be superseding the Droid¹² we in
>> "Debian Fonts Task Force" team decided to drop fonts-droid package.
>>
>> One of your package josm either
>> Depends/Recommends/Suggests/Build-Depends on fonts-droid. I kindly
>> request you to do the switch to fonts-noto instead.
>
> The josm package uses the font-droid package in favor of the embedded
> copies included in the JOSM source tree, I've created an issue in the
> upstream tracker requesting them to switch to the Noto fonts too. This
> should keep the divergence of the Debian package to a minimum.
>
> I'll update JOSM package to use the Noto fonts whether or not upstream
> decides to adopt them too.

Thanks for the quick response.!

Cheers,