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On 2017-05-30 04:14, Fabian Greffrath wrote:
Ah, I misunderstood. Thank you for the education. Regarding the purpose of this fontconfig snipped, I disagree. There was a lengthy debate on this list not so long ago about whether fontconfig should expose fonts in all available formats (e.g. WOFF) to its users and let them take care if they support the returned format or if fontconfig should restrict itself to common formats for "desktop" usage (although there are already examples given of packages that use fontconfig but are in no way restricted to either desktop or server usage). I think the term "desktop" might be confusing here. I see three categories
I can see case 1 and 2 using fontconfig, but the W3 text that
Nico mentions seems (to me at least) a very different usage case.
I tried to mention this in my bug report
https://bugs.debian.org/861938 but maybe I was not clear. The initiation of this debate was, btw, a package that already has its WOFF variant installed into a fontconfig-aware location, so if there is any harm in this, it is already done and I don't think that fonts-sil-annapurna should necessarily be the first package to revert this. ;) I agree, the issue comes up in several font packages from SIL-NRSI (and maybe some others as well). I used fonts-sil-annapurna as an example since a new version of the font had been released upstream, and I needed to package it for our own internal use. The package fonts-sil-andikanewbasic (where the issue was originally reported) did not need to be updated to a new upstream release, so I choose not to start there. I apologize if this was the wrong thing to do. For either of these packages, would you accept the WOFF files under the package documentation directory? If not, would you accept the package not containing WOFF files at all (in any location)? Those two situations have both been packaged at https://mentors.debian.net/package/fonts-sil-annapurna. The package with Debian revision -1 has no WOFF files anywhere, -2 has the WOFF files in the documentation directory. I hope this email will help you, so that you do not have to spend time reviewing a package that has a known issue. I can create -3 if need be. Thanks, Bobby |