From T95002#1178354
That said, ttf-indic-fonts (or fonts-indic) in Ubuntu seems forked :( We should examine the differences to reach parity.
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| Status | Subtype | Assigned | Task | ||
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| 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 | fgiunchedi | T103328 Investigate Ubuntu fork of ttf-indic-fonts and bring it in Jessie |
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We should examine the differences to reach parity.
For some background, see https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ttf-indic-fonts/+bug/958345 comment 10 and later.
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so it looks like there were space considerations in Ubuntu for forking the fonts, for jessie I think we're fine with installing fonts-indic since it is a superset, specifically Depends: fonts-beng, fonts-deva, fonts-gujr, fonts-guru, fonts-knda, fonts-mlym, fonts-orya, fonts-pagul, fonts-taml, fonts-telu