[Pkg-fonts-devel] Bug#651600: Bug#651600: Claiming this package

[Fabian Greffrath]

Am 14.11.2012 17:57, schrieb Vasudev Kamath:
> I think that is not correct because fonts-droid comes from
> droidfonts.com [1] and Roboto is not listed there. Roboto can be
> downloaded from here [2]

Sorry, but I am afraid this is also wrong. These may be the sites on 
which the fonts were initially announced. But it's surely not where 
they are developed and maintained. AFAICT, you cannot even download 
the Droid fonts from the site you mentioned.

For the Debian package, the fonts are prepared from a GIT checkout, see:
<http://anonscm.debian.org/viewvc/pkg-fonts/packages/fonts-droid/trunk/debian/README.Debian?view=markup>

The advantage is that the fonts are taken directly from the place 
where they are developed, where Google actually takes them from for 
their Android releases and wherey they are automatically versioned by 
means of GIT release tags. Moreover, this issue has been discussed in 
Fedora before and it turns out that the GIT repository is indeed the 
canonical source for Droid, see (I'd recommend to read through the 
other posts of this thread as well, though they are a bit scattered 
through the list archive):
<http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2012-July/169838.html>

If you check out that specific directory in the Android source 
repository that is mentioned in the README.Debian file, you will see 
that the Roboto fonts are also there:
<https://android.googlesource.com/platform/frameworks/base/+/HEAD/data/fonts/>

It is just that they are currently stripped from the Debian package 
source tarball, see README.Debian.

So, what I suggests is to change the Debian source package name to 
"fonts-android", check out the complete sources from the data/fonts 
directory in the Android GIT repository based on a specific release 
tag (e.g. android-4.1.2_r1) and set the source package version to that 
tag (e.g. 4.1.2.r1), build two binary packages "fonts-droid" and 
"fonts-roboto" from this source package. This is close to how Fedora 
does it, but they are currently restricting the fonts to the Droid* 
ones by means of a GIT sparse-checkout, see:
<http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/google-droid-fonts.git/tree/getdroid.sh>

Hope that helps!

  - Fabian