[R-pkg-team] Bug#1054597: r-cran-gfonts: overrides fonts-open-sans with inferior Open Sans variant

[Horst Schirmeier]

Package: r-cran-gfonts
Version: 0.2.0-2
Severity: important
X-Debbugs-Cc: debianbugs at schirmeier.com

Dear Maintainer,

the r-cran-gfonts package installs a variant of Open Sans (in
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/gfonts/open-sans) that only contains a subset of the
glyphs that come with the fonts-open-sans package.  However, on my system the
inferior Open Sans variant from r-cran-gfonts seems to take precedence over the
one from fonts-open-sans, which leads to missing glyphs in e.g. LibreOffice.

The only obvious solution to get access to all Open Sans glyphs is to remove
r-cran-gfonts completely and only keep fonts-open-sans.

How to reproduce:
 -  Install fonts-open-sans.
 -  Create LibreOffice Impress presentation with an Open Sans textbox
containing e.g. the "approximately equal sign" (≈) character.  Close
LibreOffice.
 -  Install r-cran-gfonts.
 -  Reopen the presentation file.

Outcome:
 -  LibreOffice shows a "missing glyph" box instead of the expected ≈
character.

Expected:
 -  LibreOffice should show the ≈ character.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: trixie/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 6.5.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/20 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE, TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US:en
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages r-cran-gfonts depends on:
ii  r-base-core [r-api-4.0]  4.3.1-4
ii  r-cran-crayon            1.5.2-1
ii  r-cran-crul              1.4.0+dfsg-1
ii  r-cran-glue              1.6.2-1
ii  r-cran-htmltools         0.5.6-1
ii  r-cran-jsonlite          1.8.7+dfsg-1
ii  r-cran-shiny             1.7.5.1+dfsg-1

Versions of packages r-cran-gfonts recommends:
ii  r-cran-covr       3.6.3+dfsg-1
ii  r-cran-knitr      1.44+dfsg-1
ii  r-cran-rmarkdown  2.25+dfsg-1
ii  r-cran-testthat   3.2.0-1
ii  r-cran-vcr        1.2.2+dfsg-1

r-cran-gfonts suggests no packages.

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