It seems we have been suffering from a lack of communication, which isn’t my intention. Let me try to describe the problem from the beginning in a way that I hope will be more helpful.
I believe it is the general consensus in Debian that fonts should only be packaged by font packages and that these fonts should be installed inside /usr/share/fonts/. This general consensus is expressed in the following two lintian tags: https://udd.debian.org/lintian-tag/font-in-non-font-package https://udd.debian.org/lintian-tag/font-outside-font-dir Upstream programs are often packaged with embedded fonts, particularly web application. Sometimes these have slipped into the Debian packaging instead of properly being remove and simlinked to the appropriate Debian font package. Debian contains a number of such packages with inappropriate embedded fonts, some of which have existed in the archive for quite a long time. Redmine is such a package. Since taking over maintenance of the redmine package, I am attempting to clean up these packaging bugs. I do not think that all font packages need to ship .WOFF2 variants. I maintain the fonts-adobe-sourcesans3 package, wich doesn’t ship .WOFF2 fonts because there aren’t currently any package in Debian that would consume them. However, if a package were to start needed them, and a bug was filed against fonts-adobe-sourcesans3 request that I ship the .WOFF2 fonts, I would be happy to do so. Looking at how this is handled by other font packages, sometimes they ship the .WOFF2 fonts in a separate binary package (sometimes named -web). In other instances they ship them in the same binary package as the other fonts. Either seems appropriate depending on the size of the font packages and the maintainer’s preference. My request is that you ship these fonts as part of the fonts-noto source package, either in one of the existing binary packages or in a new binary package. I genuinely do not understand why there would be any opposition to doing so. -- Soren Stoutner [email protected]
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