On Fri, Jan 10, 2020 at 3:34 AM Nicolas Mailhot via devel <devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Just to be clear: the Fonts packaging guidelines that FPC has been > reviewing since last year mandates the conversion and forbids the > packaging of deprecated formats. Yes. we need to take some steps to move forward on it. as we've already seen some issues on Pango, there might be similar on others that can still use with the legacy formats. we should have a chance to test on it but don't want to break as far as possible. so making both formats available would be a good idea. I personally think that we should have done it in a release though, there seems to be some human resource issue to work on all the font packages converting. so trying to experiment it for limited packages this time. > > And, user feedback since then has shown making the deprecated formats > available in addition to OpenType, not only creates the usual rendering > mess when apps choose different glyphs sources in slightly different > conditions, but also triggers app bugs. The old files are not > "harmless". Good point. actually that happens when mixing up both formats in the same place or where renderer can look over. replacement would be harmless for Pango since it has already been broken. but it isn't true for non-Pango. thus, providing them as a sub-package and both sub-packages for legacy and OpenType may need to have Conflicts line each other to avoid such a situation. > > > As it stands, having more than *.otb causes the weird hex number > > rectangle glyph "Terminus Italic", > > > Regards, > > -- > Nicolas Mailhot > _______________________________________________ > devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx -- Akira TAGOH _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
