I have no idea if Noto Sans Arabic or Noto Naskh Arabic is qualified
for Urdu and Punjabi. Even though they have minimal coverage in
fontconfig perspective, there might be minor differences which look
strange for native speakers like punctuation marks in CJK etc.
If we are going to change, we need feedback then.
For the last resort, I could take them over temporarily though, we
definitely need some help from Urdu/Punjabi communities.
On Thu, Jun 8, 2023 at 4:09 AM Adam Williamson
<adamwill(a)fedoraproject.org> wrote:
On Wed, 2023-06-07 at 11:56 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote:
> On Mon, 2023-05-15 at 13:45 +0200, Miro Hrončok wrote:
> > paktype-naskh-basic-fonts orphan, vishalvvr 2 weeks ago
>
> So this one is a problem: it appears to be our intended default font
> for Arabic. It's part of the @fonts group in comps and it's also in the
> lorax templates (meaning we expect to need it in the installer
> environment):
>
>
https://github.com/weldr/lorax/blob/master/share/templates.d/99-generic/r...
>
> This git its deadline and got retired yesterday, and that is causing
> the Rawhide compose to fail at the moment:
>
>
https://stg.pagure.io/releng/failed-composes/issue/2430
>
https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=101913117
>
https://kojipkgs.fedoraproject.org//work/tasks/3117/101913117/root.log
>
> DEBUG util.py:444: 2023-06-07 17:38:15,841: installpkg paktype-naskh-basic-fonts
failed: no package matched: paktype-naskh-basic-fonts
> DEBUG util.py:444: 2023-06-07 17:38:15,842: template command error in
runtime-install.tmpl:
> DEBUG util.py:444: 2023-06-07 17:38:15,842: installpkg paktype-naskh-basic-fonts
> DEBUG util.py:444: 2023-06-07 17:38:15,842: RuntimeError: Required installpkg
failed.
>
> We need someone to pick up and unretire this package, or we need to
> designate another font that's still maintained as our default Arabic
> font, or, uh, we need to drop Arabic support from the installer, I
> guess...
Looking into it further, per
https://tagoh.fedorapeople.org/fonts/status/current.html , it's not
intended to be our default font for Arabic any more, but it *is* the
intended default for Urdu and Punjabi (sans). For the installer at
least we may be able to get away with dropping it and hoping the noto
fonts we install:
installpkg google-noto-sans-vf-fonts google-noto-sans-mono-vf-fonts
installpkg google-noto-sans-arabic-vf-fonts
installpkg google-noto-sans-cjk-fonts
installpkg google-noto-sans-ethiopic-vf-fonts google-noto-sans-georgian-vf-fonts
installpkg google-noto-sans-gurmukhi-vf-fonts google-noto-sans-hebrew-vf-fonts
installpkg google-noto-sans-khmer-vf-fonts
installpkg google-noto-sans-sinhala-vf-fonts google-noto-sans-thai-vf-fonts
provide sufficient coverage. CCing Akira Tagoh too. Also following up
at
https://pagure.io/releng/failed-composes/issue/5031 (the Rawhide
failed compose issue).
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