Mozilla Firefox

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

  1. wily-bug-1473552
  2. Merge into firefox.wily
Proposed by Fred-wang
Status: Needs review
Proposed branch: lp://staging/~fred-wang/firefox/wily-bug-1473552
Merge into: lp://staging/~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://staging/~fred-wang/firefox/wily-bug-1473552
Reviewer Review Type Date Requested Status
Chris Coulson Pending
Review via email: mp+270253@code.staging.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

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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.

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1124. By Fred-wang

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

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