FS#79910 - [ttf-ubuntu-font-family] Provide ttf-font

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Undefined (Mailsh) - Wednesday, 11 October 2023, 07:34 GMT
Last edited by Toolybird (Toolybird) - Wednesday, 11 October 2023, 21:24 GMT
Task Type Feature Request
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To No-one
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
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Closed by  Toolybird (Toolybird)
Wednesday, 11 October 2023, 21:24 GMT
Reason for closing:  Won't implement
Additional comments about closing:  See comments
Comment by Toolybird (Toolybird) - Wednesday, 11 October 2023, 21:23 GMT
According to the wiki [1] this font does *not* provide a base font set. Fonts need to meet a certain criteria [2] before they can provide "ttf-font". This pkg used to provide ttf-font but it was removed in [3]. Unless anything has changed...sorry, but no can do.

[1] https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Fonts#Families
[2] https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Font_package_guidelines#Provides
[3] https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/packaging/packages/ttf-ubuntu-font-family/-/commit/e8601262b65d670948b6f46fde11120ca62db891

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