[Bug 477478] Please convert to new font packaging guidelines

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--- Comment #5 from Nicolas Mailhot <nicolas.mailhot at laposte.net>  2009-01-09 12:34:45 EDT ---
(In reply to comment #4)
> 1) vdr-skins already has dependencies to the symlink target providing
> dejavu-fonts-lgc-sans and dejavu-fonts-lgc-sans-mono packages.  Did I miss
> something?

I'm the one who messed up, too many font spec reviews today, I'm starting to
see double :(

> hoping that the font filenames
> are no longer moved around.

I though they moved twice, once because of a guideline change on our part and
once because upstream changed. But that was for dejavu full, lgc may have had a
more bumpy history as it's less critical.

We do try to avoid renammings, but sometimes they happen. Fontconfig apps don't
care :)

> 2) Thanks for the info - in Aug 2007, dejavu-lgc had become more ubiquitous
> than vera and full dejavu which is why I changed to it.  Will take a look at
> switching to full dejavu.

We first used dejavu LGC as default in F6 then switched to DejaVu full for F9
when Behdad felt comfortable enough about it. Nowadays DejaVu LGC like
Bitstream Vera is pretty much an historical package I don't like to see deps
on.

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