Package: ttf-khmeros
Version: 5.0-1
Severity: important

By default the decorative Khmer OS Metal Chrieng font is preferred over
the normal Khmer OS font. This is undesirable as it is not designed for
readability. 

Here is some output from fontconfig:

$ for f in "" sans-serif serif monospace sans ; do echo Searching for $f ; 
fc-match -s $f | grep -i khmer ; done
Searching for
KhmerOSmetalchrieng.ttf: "Khmer OS Metal Chrieng" "Regular"
KhmerOS.ttf: "Khmer OS" "Regular"
Searching for sans-serif
KhmerOSmetalchrieng.ttf: "Khmer OS Metal Chrieng" "Regular"
KhmerOS.ttf: "Khmer OS" "Regular"
Searching for serif
KhmerOSmetalchrieng.ttf: "Khmer OS Metal Chrieng" "Regular"
KhmerOS.ttf: "Khmer OS" "Regular"
Searching for monospace
KhmerOSmetalchrieng.ttf: "Khmer OS Metal Chrieng" "Regular"
KhmerOS.ttf: "Khmer OS" "Regular"
Searching for sans
KhmerOSmetalchrieng.ttf: "Khmer OS Metal Chrieng" "Regular"
KhmerOS.ttf: "Khmer OS" "Regular"

The attached config file, if placed as /etc/fonts/conf.d/65-khmer.conf
causes Khmer OS to be preferred for sans-serif and serif and Khmer OS
System to be preferred for monospace.

Here is some output from fontconfig after adding this file:

$ for f in "" sans-serif serif monospace sans ; do echo Searching for $f ; 
fc-match -s $f | grep -i khmer ; done
Searching for
KhmerOS.ttf: "Khmer OS" "Regular"
Searching for sans-serif
KhmerOS.ttf: "Khmer OS" "Regular"
Searching for serif
KhmerOS.ttf: "Khmer OS" "Regular"
Searching for monospace
KhmerOSsys.ttf: "Khmer OS System" "Regular"
Searching for sans
KhmerOS.ttf: "Khmer OS" "Regular"

Please create an update for ttf-khmeros that installs the attached
fontconfig snippet properly. It would be good to get this long-standing
problem fixed in Debian. 

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.23-1-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages ttf-khmeros depends on:
ii  defoma                       0.11.10-0.1 Debian Font Manager -- automatic f

-- 
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pabs

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