[Bug 477385] Please convert to new font packaging guidelines

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--- Comment #5 from Nicolas Mailhot <nicolas.mailhot at laposte.net>  2009-01-09 10:10:53 EDT ---
They are not — they have slightly different style, metrics and very different
coverage. But since they are both in the "general-purpose font" category most
projects that use FreeSans do not care if it's replaced by dejavu or not. (and
dejavu is better quality, has more coverage, and is part of our default
installs, etc).

However this is definitely something worth discussing with upstream before
doing the change. (would also be a good time to suggest them to use fontconfig
so you don't have to be in the font management business at all; if they use one
of the higher level text libs such as pango or pangocairo they'll also win
support for more scripts than just latin)

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