[Bug 1750254] [NEW] Update fonts-cantarell to 0.100

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https://git.gnome.org/browse/cantarell-fonts/tree/NEWS

There is a new version of Cantarell. The new version is a complete
redesign.

0.0.25 offers
Cantarell-BoldOblique.otf  Cantarell-Bold.otf  Cantarell-Oblique.otf  Cantarell-Regular.otf

0.100 offers
Cantarell-Bold.otf  Cantarell-ExtraBold.otf  Cantarell-Light.otf  Cantarell-Regular.otf  Cantarell-Thin.otf

0.100 has no Cyrillic coverage but 0.0.25 does.

Adam Borowski has a script at http://ix.io/M14 (it has a dependency on
libfont-freetype-perl) that you can run to get a list of the unicode
characters covered. You can diff the two lists and then look up the
glyphs in gucharmap or something.

I think the ugliest problem with missing glyphs is when a word will have
to fallback to a different font for a single missing character.

Ubuntu doesn't use Cantarell by default, but the "vanilla" GNOME session
does. There is a proposal to use Cantarell Light for some elements of
GNOME Shell 3.28, but it should fall back to regular Cantarell if that's
not available. (Cantarell Light is new in 0.100)

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/issues/45

Changelog entries since current bionic version 0.0.25-4:

fonts-cantarell (0.100-2) experimental; urgency=medium

  * Fix font installation directory
  * Drop local version of AppStream metadata since upstream provides it now

 -- Jeremy Bicha <jbicha at debian.org>  Fri, 16 Feb 2018 22:06:29 -0500

fonts-cantarell (0.100-1) experimental; urgency=medium

  * New upstream release
    - Font has been redesigned. Note that glyph coverage in the font is
      not as complete as in the previous release.
  * Build with meson
  * Build with fontmake and psautohint instead of fontforge
  * Build-Depend on appstream
  * debian/copyright: Add prebuilt fonts to Files-Excluded
  * Bump debhelper compat to 11

 -- Jeremy Bicha <jbicha at debian.org>  Mon, 12 Feb 2018 11:19:19 -0500

** Affects: fonts-cantarell (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Wishlist
         Status: Triaged


** Tags: block-proposed upgrade-software-version
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Update fonts-cantarell to 0.100
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1750254
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