[Mageia-dev] fontconfig rules of google droid fonts

Marja van Waes marja11 at xs4all.nl
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:

google-droid-fonts nobody






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