Mozilla Firefox

Merge lp:~fred-wang/firefox/wily-bug-1473552 into lp:~mozillateam/firefox/firefox.wily

  1. wily-bug-1473552
  2. Merge into firefox.wily
Proposed by Fred-wang
Status: Needs review
Proposed branch: lp:~fred-wang/firefox/wily-bug-1473552
Merge into: lp:~mozillateam/firefox/firefox.wily
Diff against target: 42 lines (+11/-2)
3 files modified
debian/changelog (+7/-0)
debian/control (+2/-1)
debian/control.in (+2/-1)
To merge this branch: bzr merge lp:~fred-wang/firefox/wily-bug-1473552
Reviewer Review Type Date Requested Status
Chris Coulson Pending
Review via email: mp+270253@code.launchpad.net

Description of the change

For historical reasons, the Firefox package suggests fonts-lyx which contains "TeX's Computer Modern Fonts" that were needed for the MathML support of Gecko 1.8 (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/MathML_Project/FontsMozilla1.8). Support for these fonts has been removed for a very long time and it is now recommended to use modern OpenType MATH fonts instead (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/MathML_Project/Fonts). This updates debian/control to instead suggests:

* Latin Modern = "computer modern" style used by default in LaTeX, compatible with the old true type fonts.
* STIX fonts (fonts-stix) = fonts created by a consortium of scientific orgs, with large unicode coverage for math symbols.

This aligns with Debian's experimental iceweasel package:

https://packages.debian.org/experimental/iceweasel

To post a comment you must log in.
Revision history for this message
Fred-wang (fred-wang) wrote :

Note: I'm not sure whether I should also submit merge request for the stable/beta/aurora/trunk branches. Apparently the change from ttf- packages to font- packages (Sat, 22 Mar 2014) is not included in these branches.

Reply

Unmerged revisions

1124. By Fred-wang

* Non-maintainer upload.
* debian/control{,.in}: Suggest modern OpenType math fonts (LP: #1473552)

Preview Diff

[H/L] Next/Prev Comment, [J/K] Next/Prev File, [N/P] Next/Prev Hunk
=== modified file 'debian/changelog'
--- debian/changelog 2015-08-27 17:53:38 +0000
+++ debian/changelog 2015-09-05 19:00:03 +0000
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
1firefox (40.0.3+build1-0ubuntu1.1) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium
2
3 * Non-maintainer upload.
4 * debian/control{,.in}: Suggest modern OpenType math fonts (LP: #1473552)
5
6 -- Frederic Wang <fred.wang@free.fr> Sat, 05 Sep 2015 20:29:46 +0200
7
1firefox (40.0.3+build1-0ubuntu1) wily; urgency=medium8firefox (40.0.3+build1-0ubuntu1) wily; urgency=medium
29
3 * New upstream stable release (FIREFOX_40_0_3_BUILD1)10 * New upstream stable release (FIREFOX_40_0_3_BUILD1)
411
=== modified file 'debian/control'
--- debian/control 2015-05-13 17:50:19 +0000
+++ debian/control 2015-09-05 19:00:03 +0000
@@ -57,7 +57,8 @@
57 iceweasel,57 iceweasel,
58 gnome-www-browser,58 gnome-www-browser,
59 ${app:Provides}59 ${app:Provides}
60Suggests: fonts-lyx,60Suggests: fonts-lmodern,
61 fonts-stix,
61 ${support:Suggests}62 ${support:Suggests}
62Breaks: ${transitional:Breaks}63Breaks: ${transitional:Breaks}
63Replaces: ${transitional:Replaces}64Replaces: ${transitional:Replaces}
6465
=== modified file 'debian/control.in'
--- debian/control.in 2015-05-13 17:50:19 +0000
+++ debian/control.in 2015-09-05 19:00:03 +0000
@@ -57,7 +57,8 @@
57 iceweasel,57 iceweasel,
58 gnome-www-browser,58 gnome-www-browser,
59 ${app:Provides}59 ${app:Provides}
60Suggests: fonts-lyx,60Suggests: fonts-lmodern,
61 fonts-stix,
61 ${support:Suggests}62 ${support:Suggests}
62Breaks: ${transitional:Breaks}63Breaks: ${transitional:Breaks}
63Replaces: ${transitional:Replaces}64Replaces: ${transitional:Replaces}

Subscribers

People subscribed via source and target branches

to all changes: