Don't link to 64-arphic-uming.conf

Bug #1834561 reported by Gunnar Hjalmarsson
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
fonts-arphic-uming (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Medium
Gunnar Hjalmarsson

Bug Description

Since Ubuntu 18.04 the intended default Chinese font for serif is "Noto Serif CJK {SC,TC}".

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/language-selector/0.182

At the same time we install the fonts-arphic-uming package for Chinese users. fonts-arphic-uming installs the fontconfig configuration file 64-arphic-uming.conf. That file includes strong bindings to "AR PL UMing" and "DejaVu Serif" which conflict with the Ubuntu specific 69-language-selector-zh-*.conf files.

Example:

$ LC_CTYPE=zh_CN.UTF-8 fc-match serif
uming.ttc: "AR PL UMing CN" "Light"

I would have expected that command to return:
NotoSerifCJK-Regular.ttc: "Noto Serif CJK SC" "Regular"

The issue was brought to my attention through the Ask Ubuntu question <https://askubuntu.com/q/1154517>.

Given that we handle the font configuration for Chinese users via Ubuntu specific files, 64-arphic-uming.conf does not fit well on Ubuntu. Dropping the related symlink in /etc/fonts/conf.d appears to be a reasonable solution.

Revision history for this message
Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package fonts-arphic-uming - 0.2.20080216.2-10ubuntu2

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fonts-arphic-uming (0.2.20080216.2-10ubuntu2) eoan; urgency=low

  * debian/fonts-arphic-uming.links:
    - Disable 64-arphic-uming.conf by dropping the symlink to it, since
      the file isn't compatible with the 69-language-selector-zh-*.conf
      files (LP: #1834561).

 -- Gunnar Hjalmarsson <email address hidden> Fri, 28 Jun 2019 06:53:00 +0200

Changed in fonts-arphic-uming (Ubuntu):
status: In Progress → Fix Released
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