Upgrade DejaVu fonts to version 2.3

[Matthias Klose]

I''ll have a look next weekend/next week when checking the OOo l10n support.

  Matthias

Simos Xenitellis wrote:
> 
> Hi All,
> We experienced some problems with the current Dejavu 2.1 fonts (included
> in Dapper),
> including applications crashing when displaying specific glyphs. In
> addition, there are packaging issues (problematic hints file).
> 
> DejaVu is the basic font in Dapper for Western languages (specifically
> Cyrillic-based, Greek-based, Latin extended, etc).
> 
> We tested with the latest version of DejaVu, 2.3, and we found out that
> the problems are solved.
> 
> We filed bug reports on this, however, the ttf-dejavu package maintainer
> does not appear to follow Malone.
> 
> Is it possible to get someone work on this issue?
> 
> Cheers,
> Simos
> 
> p.s.
> https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/ttf-dejavu/+bug/31910
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=331833
> https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/ttf-dejavu/+bug/31890
> https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/ttf-dejavu/+bug/28282
>