FAO flavors: Font configuration news in 23.10

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Hi!

As you may have seen in Let selection of default fonts be based on Noto, we are about to switch to Noto fonts by default throughout. In short the fonts-noto-core package will be installed by default, a few packages for non-latin fonts will be dropped from the seed, and via the new fontconfig file /etc/fonts/conf.d/56-language-selector-prefer.conf we try to make sure that Noto fonts are picked instead of DejaVu, even if the fonts-dejavu-core package will keep being seeded for now.

Some flavors, e.g. Kubuntu, have been shipped with Noto as default font for a few cycles. This is a heads-up to everyone who is involved in the maintenance of some flavor to consider possible consequential changes, so we avoid a font configuration overflow, so to speak.

Also, please let me know if there are any doubts from a flavor POV about the ongoing font changes.

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While the above changes now have been implemented in the Ubuntu 23.10 development version, I have also submitted Reconsider the preinstalled LCG (Latin etc.) fonts with proposed changes that would be even more important to the flavor maintainers to be attentive to. In particular I propose that fonts-dejavu-core and fonts-freefont-ttf be dropped from desktop-common.

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Thx for the heads up. On behalf of UB we most welcome the font rationisation you have done to-date and the proposal as well. We have been using the noto fonts for long time now with no adverse feedback.

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