Bug#998263: Please switch the dependency from ttf-bitstream-vera to fonts-dejavu-core

Sebastiaan Couwenberg sebastic at xs4all.nl
Mon Nov 1 18:41:58 GMT 2021


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On 11/1/21 19:32, Amr Ibrahim wrote:
> Please switch the dependency from ttf-bitstream-vera to fonts-dejavu-
> core. The dejavu font extends the bitstream vera font and is already
> installed by default on Debian GNOME. Besides, the bitstream vera font
> is very obsolete, looks worse than dejavu and sometimes as a negative
> side-effect it takes over as a default font when installed.

The vera ttf files are included in the upstream source tree, the package 
is used to avoid those embedded copies.

If you want to remove the ttf-bitstream-vera package, we can drop the 
use of the package and not diverge from upstream.

Kind Regards,

Bas

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