From T95002#1178354
ttf-ubuntu-font-family does not exist in Debian, as its license was considered non-free and after that, traction was lost (and hence was never uploaded even to non-free). Why do we need it, though? This is a very Ubuntu-specific font.
| Status | Subtype | Assigned | Task | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Resolved | hashar | T103972 Setup jobs for operations/software/conftool | |||
| Resolved | hashar | T95545 Migrate all debian-glue jobs to Jessie slaves | |||
| Resolved | hashar | T102894 Move labs/tools/extdist tox tests to jessie | |||
| Resolved | hashar | T103977 Create tox templates that are bound to jessie | |||
| Resolved | hashar | T94836 Create CI slaves using Debian Jessie | |||
| Resolved | faidon | T95002 Provide Jessie package to fullfil Mediawiki::Packages requirement | |||
| Resolved | Dereckson | T129500 Add Gujarati fonts to Wikimedia servers | |||
| Resolved | Dzahn | T102623 Mediawiki font packages: switch to Jessie | |||
| Resolved | None | T131748 Refresh the appservers puppet code/configs | |||
| Resolved | Joe | T131749 Make all role::mediawiki::* classes compatible with debian jessie | |||
| Resolved | MoritzMuehlenhoff | T103325 Investigate usage of ttf-ubuntu-font-family which is not available on Jessie |
According to T32288 it was added for SVG conversion:
Various SVG diagrams use fonts from the 'Ubuntu' typeface as the font in their labels. These are currently substituted for other fonts at the moment.
The font is not in Debian since it's considered non-free by Debian: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=603157
The mentioned restrictions are about naming the fonts after having made changes to it. Full license is here and looks fine to me: http://font.ubuntu.com/licence/ (especially since we're only using the font on our servers, not redistributing it).
Since I assume the SVG reason from above is still true, I'd say for the jessie app servers we should simply build ttf-ubuntu-font-family for jessie-wikimedia
I built the trusty jessie of src:ubuntu-font-family-sources for jessie-wikimedia and uploaded it to carbon.
On integration-slave-jessie1001 (which has the puppet class mediawiki::packages) puppet is happy:
Notice: /Stage[main]/Mediawiki::Packages::Fonts/Package[ttf-ubuntu-font-family]/ensure: ensure changed 'purged' to 'present'
Thanks!