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By the way, the file 30-metric-aliases.conf breaks font selection on all
web pages containing font selectors like this:

font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;

in the case where Helvetica is NOT installed, while Arial IS installed.
In css the font names are prioritized, and if the first isn't installed,
the second should be chosen, and so on. So the web page should display
in Arial, instead it displays in Nimbus Sans L. Because when the browser
requests helvetica from fontconfig it should be denied and try the next
option (Arial), instead it gets Nimbus Sans L and never gets to test for
Arial.

This problem exists in several browsers. I'm not sure whose
responsibility this is, browser or fontconfig.

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1333627

Title:
  update broke fonts in firefox

Status in “fontconfig” package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete

Bug description:
  I have Ubuntu Studio 14.04. The updates window popped up and asked me
  to install updates. Which I did. This somehow broke my font
  configuration. So that I have blurry fonts in firefox. No other
  application is affected.

  I have modified nothing in /etc/fonts/conf.avail.

  If updates changes the contents of /etc/fonts/conf.d I do not see the
  purpose of having a conf.avail/conf.d - organization. The purpose must
  be to let users link or unlink files in conf.d to files in conf.avail.

  I don't expect updates to create links in /etc/fonts/conf.d that were
  previously created at installation time or upgrate time. So if I
  unlink something in /etc/fonts/conf.d I expect it to stay that way.

  Changes to the files themselves should go in /etc/fonts/conf.avail.

  Changes to which files are available by default in /etc/fonts/conf.d
  should be applied only when they are CHANGES. Not reinstall the
  default links with every update.

  lsb_release -rd
  Description:	Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
  Release:	14.04

  
  ~$ apt-cache policy fontconfig
  fontconfig:
    Installed: 2.11.0-0ubuntu4.1
    Candidate: 2.11.0-0ubuntu4.1
    Version table:
   *** 2.11.0-0ubuntu4.1 0
          500 http://no.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-updates/main amd64 Packages
          100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
       2.11.0-0ubuntu4 0
          500 http://no.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty/main amd64 Packages

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