Bug#1029390: fontconfig-config: Frequently used sans, sans-serif and monospace changed from DejaVu to Noto without a warning

[Petr Gajdůšek]

Package: fontconfig-config
Version: 2.14.1-3
Severity: important
X-Debbugs-Cc: gajdus...@centrum.cz

Dear Maintainer,

In /usr/share/fontconfig/conf.avail/60-latin.conf the preferred font for sans,
sans-serif and monospace has changed from DejaVu to Noto.

This comes from upstream and the commit unfortunately lacks any reasoning:
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/fontconfig/fontconfig/-/commit/ad70d785974992c569b30108923875e5b5e9dc5e

This results in font change in a lot of applications I am using.

Please consider keeping the DejaVu as the preferred family or distribute a
NEWS.Debian with the change described and
instructions how to change the preferred fonts, e.g. by copying and modifying
/etc/fonts/conf.d/60-latin.conf to $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/fontconfig/conf.d/

Thank you, Petr


-- System Information:
Debian Release: bookworm/sid
APT prefers stable-updates
APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable-security'), (500, 'oldstable-updates'), (500, 'oldoldstable'), (500, 'testing'), (499, 'unstable'), (497, 'stable'), (496, 'oldstable'), (490, 'oldoldstable'), (1, 'experimental')
merged-usr: no
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 6.0.0-6-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages fontconfig-config depends on:
ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.82
ii fonts-croscore 20201225-1
ii fonts-dejavu-core 2.37-2
ii fonts-freefont-otf 20120503-10
ii fonts-freefont-ttf 20120503-10
ii fonts-liberation 1:1.07.4-11
ii fonts-liberation2 2.1.5-1
ii fonts-texgyre 20180621-6
ii fonts-urw-base35 20200910-6
ii ttf-bitstream-vera 1.10-8.2

fontconfig-config recommends no packages.

fontconfig-config suggests no packages.

-- debconf information excluded