Bug 1533914 - [ghostscript-chinese] retirement of the package
Summary: [ghostscript-chinese] retirement of the package
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Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: ghostscript-chinese
Version: rawhide
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Peng Wu
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2018-01-12 14:13 UTC by David Kaspar // Dee'Kej
Modified: 2018-02-05 05:01 UTC (History)
5 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2018-02-05 05:01:20 UTC
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Description David Kaspar // Dee'Kej 2018-01-12 14:13:23 UTC
Description of problem:
In the past, the Ghostscript did not have such a good support for substitutions of glyphs in CJK-based documents, in case the document itself was missing embedded fonts (that are capable of correctly rendering the document's text).

This was one of the reasons why the 'ghostscript-chinese' package was created AFAICT.

Nowadays, upstream has added their default solution for this issue in the Ghostscript, by using Google's Droid Sans Font Fallback for glyphs substitution.

And we have reached a point where it is now expected for PS/PDF and other documents' formats to have the font typefaces embedded in the document when users are not using fonts that are not widely available. That's because the fonts substitutions will never be perfect, because it always be just a workaround.

Ghostscript package, starting by version ghostscript-9.22-4.fc28, no longer has the support for conf.d/ package. And we should try to make an effort to convince  text applications developers to start embedding "exotic" fonts into documents by default.

Based on the reasons above, I'm hereby requesting for retirement of 'ghostscript-chinese' package, as it is no longer needed. The package should be retired for Fedora 28 and onward.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
ghostscript-chinese-0.4.0-9.fc27

Comment 5 Peng Wu 2018-02-05 04:56:53 UTC
Okay, I just retired the ghostscript-chinese package for rawhide.


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