[Fedora-i18n-bugs] [Bug 1533914] New: [ghostscript-chinese] retirement of the package

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1533914

            Bug ID: 1533914
           Summary: [ghostscript-chinese] retirement of the package
           Product: Fedora
           Version: rawhide
         Component: ghostscript-chinese
          Severity: medium
          Priority: medium
          Assignee: pwu(a)redhat.com
          Reporter: dkaspar(a)redhat.com
        QA Contact: extras-qa(a)fedoraproject.org
                CC: i18n-bugs(a)lists.fedoraproject.org,
                    petersen(a)redhat.com, pwu(a)redhat.com



Description of problem:
In the past, the Ghostscript did not have such a good support for substitutions
of glyphs in CJK-based documents, in case the document itself was missing
embedded fonts (that are capable of correctly rendering the document's text).

This was one of the reasons why the 'ghostscript-chinese' package was created
AFAICT.

Nowadays, upstream has added their default solution for this issue in the
Ghostscript, by using Google's Droid Sans Font Fallback for glyphs
substitution.

And we have reached a point where it is now expected for PS/PDF and other
documents' formats to have the font typefaces embedded in the document when
users are not using fonts that are not widely available. That's because the
fonts substitutions will never be perfect, because it always be just a
workaround.

Ghostscript package, starting by version ghostscript-9.22-4.fc28, no longer has
the support for conf.d/ package. And we should try to make an effort to
convince  text applications developers to start embedding "exotic" fonts into
documents by default.

Based on the reasons above, I'm hereby requesting for retirement of
'ghostscript-chinese' package, as it is no longer needed. The package should be
retired for Fedora 28 and onward.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
ghostscript-chinese-0.4.0-9.fc27

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