[Bug 1685918] [NEW] Change font dependency to recommendends

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You have been subscribed to a public bug by Rolf Leggewie (r0lf):

In kodi-data is a hard dependency for fonts-noto-mono and for fonts-
noto-hinted. Please, change both fromo Depends to Recommends.

Changing this allow for deinstallation of these two font packages,
without breaking package dependencies in case these fonts are provided
in another way via TeX Live installation. This mainly concerns Ubuntu
users that use Tex Live, which are a lot, especially since Tex Live
packages are still not up to date in Debian and Ubuntu.

Changing to Recommends allow users to solve font conflicts (in this case
the availability of the same font twice) easily and this change in
dependency has been done for several other packages for this reason in
the last few years.

See also:
* https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/birdfont/+bug/1593711
* https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libpdf-api2-perl/+bug/714588
* https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/matplotlib/+bug/1593678

** Affects: kodi (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Medium
         Status: In Progress


** Tags: packaging unmetdeps zesty
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Change font dependency to recommendends
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1685918
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