Bug 437689

Summary:	xorg-x11-fonts-ethiopic is not exposed correctly
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Nicolas Mailhot <nicolas.mailhot>
Component:	xorg-x11-fonts	Assignee:	Kristian Høgsberg <krh>
Status:	CLOSED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Priority:	low
Version:	11	CC:	fonts-bugs, mcepl, xgl-maint
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Description Nicolas Mailhot 2008-03-16 13:05:25 UTC

Description of problem:

1. xorg-x11-fonts-ethiopic contains fonts in a modern TTF/OTF format. Those
fonts need to be exposed in /usr/share/fonts and not /usr/share/X11/fonts for
more apps to take advantage of them

2. the package contains two versions of the same font (in OTF and TTF format).
This is likely to confuse apps so either drop one or make two separate
conflicting packages so they're never installed at the same time on the same
system. The OTF file appears to be the most complete one based on its size so
I'd drop the TTF one (true all our apps do not support OTF fonts yet but they
are becoming common enough apps should be fixed and TTf versions needn't be
provided as workaround)

3. The package only contains the Goha-Tibeb Zemen font. It would be more
user-friendly if it was renamed goha-tibeb-zemen-fonts

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

xorg-x11-fonts-ethiopic-7.2-6.fc9

Comment 1 Bug Zapper 2008-05-14 06:38:54 UTC

Changing version to '9' as part of upcoming Fedora 9 GA.
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Comment 2 Bug Zapper 2009-06-09 23:47:25 UTC

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Comment 3 Nicolas Mailhot 2009-10-17 20:38:43 UTC

(In reply to comment #0)

> 3. The package only contains the Goha-Tibeb Zemen font. It would be more
> user-friendly if it was renamed goha-tibeb-zemen-fonts

Or xorg-goha-tibeb-zemen-fonts if you want to keep the origin clear (recommended nowadays)

If you don't care about the X core fonts backend the current basic template is sufficient, otherwise you get to play with fonts.foo and symlinking the font dir in /etc/X11/fontpath.d/

Comment 4 Matěj Cepl 2009-10-17 20:42:07 UTC

Whole package is just in terrible shape. Closing as duplicate of the Merge
Review.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 226639 ***