https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20456
Mingye Wang arthur200126@gmail.com changed:
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--- Comment #51 from Mingye Wang arthur200126@gmail.com --- As a retired packager I am very concerned by the approach used by the currently staged patches, i.e. by providing a rebranded Liberation Mono as Courier New similar to wine's Tahoma. Doing so is extremely unnecessary as almost every distro has those fonts.
This bug is not a problem of the "Liberation fonts", but a problem caused by trying to use "Liberation Sans" in place of "Courier New" when the correct substitution is "Liberation Mono". This issue can be trivially fixed by either a new `HKCU\Software\Wine\Fonts\Replacements` default, or (to solve similar future problems with e.g. Calibri and Cambria altogether) by more properly respecting what `fontconfig` says.
I hope that other solutions are investigated before wine goes on this bundling path. The sheer size of the proposed patch for #13829 should already be a red flag.