The "Fonts" catagory in the seeds don't get generated, also redundant fonts in "supporting bits"

Jens jensreu at kolabnow.com
Mon Jul 31 09:49:53 UTC 2017


The grand post Akademy malaise is still lingering. The issue is I guess 
testing first just to make sure a simple edit doesn't turn into a huge problem.

(Let Harald, Jon and Scarlett get back properly too as most have just returned 
home properly)

On Monday, 31 July 2017 10.03.08 CEST Pranav Sharma wrote:
> I just found out what regex is / how to use sed. So if we add 's' to list
> of lines to exclude, we should get the font that we want. Since its just
> adding two characters, is it worth testing?
> 
> On Jul 25, 2017 3:55 PM, "Pranav Sharma" <pranav.sharma.ama at gmail.com>
> 
> wrote:
> > I still don't get it. If fonts are stripped from the package lists how
> > does fonts-hack-ttf and fonts-noto-hinted persist as a dependency? What is
> > stopping fonts-symbola from being included as well so fonts render
> > properly
> > out of the box?
> > 
> > On Sat, Jul 22, 2017 at 10:52 AM, Pranav Sharma <
> > 
> > pranav.sharma.ama at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> Is there a way to include fonts-symbola with the required fonts like noto
> >> and hack? Already ran this by Mr. Riddell, it is a font that enables
> >> emoji
> >> support, an apparently Kubuntu already ships with it. I thought adding it
> >> to the fonts category would work, but I don't know what is going on
> >> anymore.
> >> 
> >> On Sat, Jul 22, 2017 at 3:17 AM, Harald Sitter <sitter at kde.org> wrote:
> >>> https://packaging.neon.kde.org/neon/seeds.git/tree/update?h=
> >>> Neon/release#n20
> >>> 
> >>> On Jul 22, 2017 09:16, "Harald Sitter" <sitter at kde.org> wrote:
> >>>> Because fonts get stripped to bypass platform fonts from Ubuntu
> >>>> 
> >>>> On Jul 21, 2017 19:45, "Pranav Sharma" <pranav.sharma.ama at gmail.com>
> >>>> 
> >>>> wrote:
> >>>>> I did a recent install and was surprised to see that I had black boxes
> >>>>> again. It seems like the "fonts" part of the seed is ignored. Also,
> >>>>> the
> >>>>> other fonts like noto and hack are redundantly placed in "supporting
> >>>>> bits".
> >>>>> Kind of confused, just want emojis out of the box.
> >>>>> https://packaging.neon.kde.org/neon/seeds.git/tree/desk
> >>>>> top?h=Neon/release
> >>>>> --
> >>>>> Pranav Sharma
> >>>>> Gmail Address <pranav.sharma.ama at gmail.com>
> >> 
> >> --
> >> Pranav Sharma
> >> Gmail Address <pranav.sharma.ama at gmail.com>
> > 
> > --
> > Pranav Sharma
> > Gmail Address <pranav.sharma.ama at gmail.com>




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