id summary reporter owner description type status priority milestone component version severity resolution keywords cc mlocked 13301 Debian/Ubuntu: Install Droid fonts instead of symlinking. faginbagin "The packaging/deb scripts create symlinks to Droid fonts that are no longer available on Debian or Ubuntu. However, mythtv already has the Droid fonts under source control and installs them when mythtv is built from source. The pull request: https://github.com/MythTV/packaging/pull/73 changes the debian/ubuntu packaging to install mythtv's droid fonts instead of relying on fonts that were deprecated two years ago and replaced by dejavu fonts that don't look right. See: https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2016-February/039159.html for more background. When the droid fonts are not installed, themes that depend on them fallback to the dejavu fonts. The dejavu fonts are noticeably wider than the droid fonts and cause information to be lost, like whether a recording was made at 12:00 am or 12:00 pm. To demonstrate, attached are 4 images of the ""Watch Recordings"" window as seen using two of the official mythtv themes: !MythCenter at 800x600 resolution and !MythCenter-wide at 1280x720 resolution: * mc-dejavu.png - !MythCenter fallback to Dejavu fonts * mc-droid.png - !MythCenter with Droid fonts * mcw-dejavu.png - !MythCenter-wide fallback to Dejavu fonts * mcw-droid.png - !MythCenter-wide with Droid fonts Developers and theme designers may not be aware that users don't see what was intended, because, when you compile and install mythtv from source, you get the fonts, but when you install from .deb packages created using the files in packaging/deb you don't. Note that other fonts are still symlinked. Should they be? " Patch - Bug Fix closed minor 31.0 Packaging v29.1 medium Fixed droid fonts symlink 0