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

Harald Sitter sitter at kde.org
Mon Jul 31 13:00:54 UTC 2017


Well, the original change makes no sense to me TBH. It seems to me
that for consistency reasons we'd want Noto Emoji, not some random
font which muddies the waters. Incidentally, Noto Emoji would be
subject to the same whitelisting as the rest of Noto and it would have
just worked...

On Mon, Jul 31, 2017 at 11:49 AM, Jens <jensreu at kolabnow.com> wrote:
> 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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