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

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson]

** Description changed:

  [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 7 weight specific font files instead of a single "super" file.
  This works around the Chromium/Chrome issue.
  
- Note: It has already been fixed in Debian (version 1:1.004+repack2-1),
- so as regards yakkety I suppose that syncing instead of uploading from
- the PPA is a good idea.
+ Note: It has been fixed in yakkety via autosync, so "backporting"
+ yakkety (as an SRU) instead of uploading from the PPA is an option.
  
  [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]
  
  This is about another font packaging form, without any change in glyph
  coverage, so the the regression risk should be low.
  
  [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

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Title:
  Chrome/Chromium use "Thin" as default font weight

Status in fonts-noto-cjk package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in fonts-noto-cjk source package in Xenial:
  In Progress
Status in fonts-noto-cjk package in Debian:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  [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 7 weight specific font files instead of a single "super"
  file. This works around the Chromium/Chrome issue.

  Note: It has been fixed in yakkety via autosync, so "backporting"
  yakkety (as an SRU) instead of uploading from the PPA is an option.

  [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]

  This is about another font packaging form, without any change in glyph
  coverage, so the the regression risk should be low.

  [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

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