On Mon, Jul 17, 2006 at 07:21:47 -0400, Keith Packard wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-07-17 at 07:31 +0200, Jan Hudec wrote:
> 
> > The dejavu.diff does NOT fix this bug. It adds DejaVu fonts as alternative
> > for the generic aliases, but it puts them after Bitstream Vera. However 
> > since
> > DejaVu fonts are a strict superset of Bitstream Vera ones, they should be
> > the /first/ alternative.
> 
> No, they should not. The Deja Vu developers do not have access to
> reasonable font design tools, so the glyphs they're creating are not of
> high quality, furthermore, they've added glyphs of questionable quality
> from other free fonts that are far outside the design space for the Vera
> family.
> 
> Deja Vu is becoming a sad reflection of the Vera promise. If you don't
> want to use the vera font, don't install it.

Unfortunately occasionally packages appear that depend on
ttf-bitstream-vera, so it's not possible to not install it (or, rather,
it was not possible at some point in time and aptitude won't auto-remove
it as long as it's part of depend alternative afterwards). It, however,
is possible to not install ttf-dejavu.

Other thing is, whether there are any glyphs of questionable quality in
dejavu, that exist in bistream vera. Otherwise it's IMHO better to have
a glyph of questionable quality, than none at all.

Anyway, can you please add an explanation of this situation in
README.Debian and changelog.Debian?

Thank you,

Jan Hudec

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