[Mageia-dev] fontconfig rules of google droid fonts

Thu Mar 1 11:46:16 CET 2012

On 01/03/12 09:50, You-Cheng Hsieh wrote:
+> 2012/3/1 Pascal Terjan<pterjan at gmail.com>:
+>> On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 07:04, You-Cheng Hsieh<yochenhsieh at gmail.com>  wrote:
+>>> Hello,
+>>>
+>>> Was the fontconfig rules of google droid fonts used for any specific purpose?
+>>> http://svnweb.mageia.org/packages/cauldron/google-droid-fonts/current/SOURCES/
+>>>
+>>> There is a Mageia1/cauldron bug which might be involved with those
+>>> fontconfig rules:
+>>> https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=751
+>>>
+>>> Currently, with these config present, libreoffice cannot show proper
+>>> font fallback while typing Chinese characters.
+>>>
+>>> By removing these config files, the problem is reduced to only happen
+>>> in Droid Sans. If there's no other regressions or side-effects, please
+>>> consider removing these fontconfig rules and rebuild
+>>> google-droid-fonts for mageia 1 core update&  caldron.
+>>>
+>>> Thanks.
+>> I don't know anything about fontconfig but can removing those parts be enough?
+>>
+>> 140<alias>
+>> 141<family>sans-serif</family>
+>> 142<prefer>
+>> 143<family>Droid Sans</family>
+>> 144</prefer>
+>> 145</alias>
+> Thanks, that should do the same.
+> Problem still happen while user typing Chinese with Droid Sans, but at
+> least writer is now usable.
+>
+> Google-droid-fonts is a maintained package so we should wait for
+> Dmorgan to respond?
+>
+Here http://pkgsubmit.mageia.org/data/maintdb.txt
+
+I read it is not maintained:
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+google-droid-fonts nobody
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