Package: ttf-malayalam-fonts Version: 1:0.4.7 Severity: wishlist
According to the changelog, version 1:0.4.4 of this package removed MalOtf.ttf sinct it was identical to malayalam.ttf. IMHO, this is not appropriate, since MalOtf.ttf contains the OpenType layout tables while malayalam.ttf does not. The better choice would have been to take out malayalam.ttf and retain MalOtf.ttf. AFAIK, while most rendering engines support OpenType fonts, the glyph substitution information for non-OpenType fonts varies from font to font. In particular, malayalam.ttf is not doing _any_ kind of glyph substitution on present versions of pango; I do not know whether this due to any changes made in pango or some problem with the font file. -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.16-1-686 Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Versions of packages ttf-malayalam-fonts depends on: ii defoma 0.11.8-0.1 Debian Font Manager -- automatic f ttf-malayalam-fonts recommends no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
