[Bug 1575555] [NEW] Chrome/Chromium use "Thin" as default font weight

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[Impact]

Chromium and Google Chrome use "Thin" as the default Noto Sans CJK font
weight, which makes some Chinese and Japanese web pages difficult to
read, and thus gives a bad user experience.

The fonts-noto-cjk version in the PPA

https://launchpad.net/~gunnarhj/+archive/ubuntu/fonts-noto-cjk

installs 36 separate font files instead of a bundled OTC file. This
works around the Chromium/Chrome issue.

[Test Case]

To reproduce the bug:

* Install Chromium or Google Chrome.
* Go to <http://www.gamer.com.tw> and notice the very thin characters.
* Install fonts-noto-cjk from the PPA and notice the difference.

[Regression Potential]

Due to ISO space concerns, the solution includes the creation of the
fonts-noto-cjk-extras binary, which will not be seeded. fonts-noto-cjk
installs only the 8 most important font files, while the rest are
installed by fonts-noto-cjk-extras. Consequently 28 fonts will be
dropped when the 16.04 users upgrade to the new fonts-noto-cjk package.
However,

- they will be prompted to install fonts-noto-cjk-extras via Language
  Support,

- fixing the Chromium/Chrome issue carries greater weight, and

- it's not a regression compared to 14.04 or 15.10, since the previous
  package for rendering Chinese contents (fonts-droid) does not include
  all those font weights.

[Original description]

The package seems to only "thin" variant of the font, which makes it
very unreadable in applications such as Chrome (when it has to fall back
on Chinese fonts on a mostly-English page). I had to remove the package
and then manually download the font from Google website and install it
to make the regular weight available

Release: 16.04 LTS
Package Version: 1.004+repack1-1
Expected: All weights of the noto cjk font to be installed
Happened: Only the "thin" weight of the font seems to be installed

** Affects: fonts-noto-cjk (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Medium
     Assignee: Gunnar Hjalmarsson (gunnarhj)
         Status: In Progress

** Affects: language-selector (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Medium
     Assignee: Gunnar Hjalmarsson (gunnarhj)
         Status: Triaged

** Affects: fonts-noto-cjk (Ubuntu Xenial)
     Importance: Medium
     Assignee: Gunnar Hjalmarsson (gunnarhj)
         Status: In Progress

** Affects: language-selector (Ubuntu Xenial)
     Importance: Medium
     Assignee: Gunnar Hjalmarsson (gunnarhj)
         Status: Triaged

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Chrome/Chromium use "Thin" as default font weight
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1575555
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