[Bug 412195] Re: ttf-tahoma-replacement makes some web-sites look ugly

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson]

On 2023-11-13 18:44, Marius Gedminas wrote:
> Debian reverted the change to isolate these low quality fonts from the
> rest of the system in
> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=883973, and now this
> bug is back in Ubuntu 23.10.

Good catch! That Debian bug was filed in 2017, and "the fix" of it was
uploaded in Ubuntu here:

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/wine/8.0.1~repack-2

So: Some users like that the .ttf files in fonts-wine are treated as
system fonts, and some users dislike it. If you dislike it, please
submit a Debian bug and request that "the fix" of
<https://bugs.debian.org/883973> gets reverted. Given the subjective
nature of the issue, it would not make sense to change it back in Ubuntu
only.

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Title:
  ttf-tahoma-replacement makes some web-sites look ugly

Status in fontconfig package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid
Status in wine1.2 package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: wine1.2

  This font package is good for wine 1.2; however, it also makes sites
  look ugly in Firefox and other browsers. I had to manually remove the
  fonts from /usr/share/fonts/ to rectfiy this, because removing the
  package through apt would have made me remove wine 1.2 and I didn't
  want that.

  ProblemType: Bug
  Architecture: i386
  Date: Wed Aug 12 00:23:40 2009
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
  Package: ttf-tahoma-replacement 1.1.27-0ubuntu1
  PackageArchitecture: all
  ProcEnviron:
   PATH=(custom, user)
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-5.24-generic
  SourcePackage: wine1.2
  Uname: Linux 2.6.31-5-generic i686

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