Bug 1898319 - dejavu-lgc-sans-mono-fonts: Misleading summary
Summary: dejavu-lgc-sans-mono-fonts: Misleading summary
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Status: CLOSED EOL
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: dejavu-fonts
Version: 36
Hardware: x86_64
OS: Linux
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low
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Nicolas Mailhot
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2020-11-16 19:45 UTC by Van de Bugger
Modified: 2023-05-25 18:07 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2023-05-25 18:07:07 UTC
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Description Van de Bugger 2020-11-16 19:45:42 UTC
Description of problem:

Summary of dejavu-lgc-sans-mono-fonts is misleading. It is: "A variable-width Latin-Greek-Cyrillic mono-space font family". Accordingly to Wikipedia:

> A monospaced font, also called a fixed-pitch, fixed-width, or non-proportional font, is a font whose letters and characters each occupy the same amount of horizontal space. This contrasts with variable-width fonts, where the letters and spacings have different widths. 

So, a font is either monospaced or variable-width but not both, these are mutually exclusive concepts. How dejavu-lgc-sans-mono-fonts can be "a variable-width mono-space font family"??

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

dejavu-lgc-sans-mono-fonts-2.37-15.fc33

How reproducible:

Always.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. $ dnf info dejavu-lgc-sans-mono-fonts

Actual results:

Summary      : A variable-width Latin-Greek-Cyrillic mono-space font family

Expected results:

Summary      : A Latin-Greek-Cyrillic mono-space font family

Comment 1 Nicolas Mailhot 2020-11-16 20:09:42 UTC
Thanks for the report, we seem to have all spend so much time reviewing and rewriting the spec no one reads the text anymore.

I’ll try to fix it with the next update batch (though it is currently blocked by a redhat-rpm-config change no one seems to want to approve, so it may take quite a lot of time)

Comment 2 Ben Cotton 2021-11-04 17:14:54 UTC
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Comment 3 Van de Bugger 2021-11-08 23:56:26 UTC
Still a problem for dejavu-lgc-sans-mono-fonts-2.37 in Fedora 34.

Comment 4 Ben Cotton 2022-05-12 16:18:14 UTC
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Comment 5 Ben Cotton 2023-04-25 16:41:16 UTC
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Comment 6 Ludek Smid 2023-05-25 18:07:07 UTC
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