[Bug 653865] Re: Please backport ubuntu-font-family-sources (0.68+ufl-0ubuntu1) from maverick/main

[Paul Sladen]

*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 650889 ***
    https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/650889

Andrew: I've duped this against bug #650889 ("Ubuntu Font Family would
be valuable for older releases") as it might be interesting to read the
back story.  The discussions did involve several Ubuntu archive
administrators (not necessarily Canonical ones...) and certain other
people with a strong interest to allow it to be exceptionally processed
as a Stable Release Update!  In this case;

  1. The Ubuntu Font Family is closely associated with the Ubuntu brand and users have proven extremely enthusiastic to get it
  2. Is a  leaf-node package (does not depend on anything else); containing only data
  3. We really want people to running the latest version of the fonts (to help clean out early test versions)
  4. A package from the repository can be further updated; random .ttfs installed in ~/.fonts/ cannot
  5. A user has to intentionally choose to install the package themselves from the Ubuntu Software Centre (it is not automatic, or to be depended upon)

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Title:
  Please backport ubuntu-font-family-sources (0.68+ufl-0ubuntu1) from
  maverick/main