[Slackbuilds-users] broken source for google-droid-fonts

[Alexander Verbovetsky]

On Sun, Feb 7, 2016, at 07:11, Ryan P.C. McQuen wrote:
> On Feb 6, 2016 5:34 PM, "Alexander Verbovetsky" <alik at ejik.org> wrote:
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > the source file for google-droid-fonts
> > (platform_frameworks_base-5.x-20141010-fonts.tar.xz) contains only
> > DroidSansFallback.ttf
> > DroidSansFallbackFull.ttf
> > DroidSansMono.ttf
> >
> > I think, the previous version
> >
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/slackbuildsdirectlinks/files/google-droid-fonts/platform_frameworks_base-4.x.fonts.tar.gz
> > should be used.  It contains:
> > DroidKufi-Bold.ttf
> > DroidKufi-Regular.ttf
> > DroidNaskh-Bold.ttf
> > DroidNaskh-Regular.ttf
> > DroidNaskhUI-Regular.ttf
> > DroidSans-Bold.ttf
> > DroidSans.ttf
> > DroidSansArabic.ttf
> > DroidSansArmenian.ttf
> > DroidSansEthiopic-Bold.ttf
> > DroidSansEthiopic-Regular.ttf
> > DroidSansFallback.ttf
> > DroidSansFallbackFull.ttf
> > DroidSansFallbackLegacy.ttf
> > DroidSansGeorgian.ttf
> > DroidSansHebrew-Bold.ttf
> > DroidSansHebrew-Regular.ttf
> > DroidSansJapanese.ttf
> > DroidSansMono.ttf
> > DroidSerif-Bold.ttf
> > DroidSerif-BoldItalic.ttf
> > DroidSerif-Italic.ttf
> > DroidSerif-Regular.ttf
> 
> This is an upstream issue, right?

No, the file
/etc/fonts/conf.avail/35-droid.conf
refers to the fonts that are not installed (DroidSerif-Regular.ttf and
DroidSans.ttf).

Also, with source version 5 we here at SBo are loosing the Droid fonts
as they were, why?

Alexander