bad console-setup results in Stretch

From	Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	bad console-setup results in Stretch
Date	2017-03-05 12:00 +0100
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Can someone explain how to get the framebuffer vttys to use the same font rpm 
distro kernels use by default for framebuffer bootup messages? All rpm distros 
AFAIK use the same one. AFAICT, no rpm distros use anything directly 
corresponding to Debian's console-setup, and their vtty font is far superior to 
the ugly non-bolded fonts I've most often seen Debians use.

I just did a dist-upgrade from Jessie to Stretch. Before running it, I commented 
out the CODESET, FONTFACE and FONTSIZE lines in /etc/default/console-setup, then 
made the file immutable. This produced a perfect post-upgrade result except for 
one thing: every run of apt/apt-get/aptitude resulted in a failure message due 
to inability to write the file. I got tired of that message, and reset the file 
writable. Now the framebuffer fonts are as bad as I've ever seen it whether set 
to Terminus, TerminusBold, TerminusBoldVGA or Fixed, with Terminus and Fixed by 
far the worst. I can't distinguish any difference between TerminusBold and 
TerminusBoldVGA.

A good example of the rpm font face superiority is the capital "R". The Debian 
TerminusBold font is top heavy with no serifs. The rpm font is decently balanced 
top to bottom, and the left top and left bottom have tiny serifs flagging to the 
left. Apparently lat9w-16.psfu is what produces this on openSUSE, as it is 
contained in /etc/sysconfig/console: 'CONSOLE_FONT="lat9w-16.psfu"', which is 
from /usr/share/kbd/consolefonts/lat9w-16.psfu.gz.

Font height is a non-issue. 16 tall is just right.

Is there some other console font package than is in a default installation I can 
install in Stretch to do better? Something else?
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