Source Sans Por font package renamed font breaking all referenes to it

[arximboldi]

Describe the bug

The Source Sans Pro font as installed by the source-sans-pro package, is now called Source Sans 3. This breaks all references to the font in documents, but also in web pages, etc. The font

Steps To Reproduce

Open this webpage: https://github.com/arximboldi/immer
The logo uses the Source Sans Pro font and it should look correct when the source-sans-pro package is installed. Instead, it shows an alternative font with serif.

Expected behavior

The font should be called Source Sans Pro and not Source Sans Pro 3, keeping all references. If this was not desirable (because the font is just too different) then a package should be provided to install the old version with the old name.

Notify maintainers

@ttuegel

Metadata

Please run nix-shell -p nix-info --run "nix-info -m" and paste the result.

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 - channels(raskolnikov): `"nixgl, nixpkgs-22.05pre335173.56cbe42f166"`
 - nixpkgs: `/home/raskolnikov/.nix-defexpr/channels/nixpkgs`

[andersk]

The upstream name change was intentional (adobe-fonts/source-serif#77).

[arximboldi]

Thank you andersk that explains a lot! I guess then it makes sense to also install the older version?
Edit: or provide it as a separate package.

[ttuegel]

We should be able to deal with this through fontconfig.

[wentasah]

If I understand correctly, it's not only the name that has been changed, but the renamed font has also different metrics. This means that if we just configure fontconfig to replace "Source Sans Pro" with "Source Sans 3", the layout of existing documents might change.

So I think, it would make sense to either reintroduce Pro fonts as a separate package, or include the older (Pro) version together with the new one (which is what Archlinux is doing).

If @ttuegel is interested, I can turn my commit, which does the former, to a PR.

[arximboldi]

So I think, it would make sense to either reintroduce Pro fonts as a separate package, or include the older (Pro) version together with the new one (which is what Archlinux is doing).

I agree. Either of these two solutions would be satisfying to me.

[ttuegel]

So I think, it would make sense to either reintroduce Pro fonts as a separate package, or include the older (Pro) version together with the new one (which is what Archlinux is doing).

If @ttuegel is interested, I can turn my commit, which does the former, to a PR.

@wentasah I wasn't aware of the metrics changes. I think adding the older version back as a new package makes perfect sense, thank you!