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

[Harald Sitter]

it is random as far as plasma and for that matter noto is concerned

On Mon, Jul 31, 2017 at 6:40 PM, Pranav Sharma
<pranav.sharma.ama at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Mr. Sitter,
>
> My bad for trying to add the font without properly knowing sed / regex. As
> far as I know, debian is stuck trying to package noto-emoji. Also
> fonts-symbola is the only emoji font in the ubuntu repositories. I could try
> to port arch's packaging of noto-emoji, but that would be one more package
> to build / support. Symbola is the default emoji font for ubuntu, kubuntu,
> ubuntu mate, etc, so I don't find it to be a random font.
>
> On Mon, Jul 31, 2017 at 9:00 AM, Harald Sitter <sitter at kde.org> wrote:
>>
>> 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
>> >> >>>>> --
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>> >> >>>>> Gmail Address <pranav.sharma.ama at gmail.com>
>> >> >>
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