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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