[Pkg-fonts-devel] Update on fonts-android splitting

[Vasudev Kamath]

Vasudev Kamath <vasudev at copyninja.info> writes:

> Hi all,
>
> I started working on packaging fonts-roboto from the upstream source
> available on github ¹. I've prepared package in our git ². If any one
> can have a look at the packaging and provide suggestions it would be
> good.
>
> Now coming to fonts-droid, which has now become RC buggy. I'm planning
> to drop it right away. I would report bugs on all its reverse
> dependencies.
>
> reverse-depends from ubuntu-dev-tools shows below result for
> fonts-droid.
>
> Reverse-Recommends
> ==================
> * gnome-shell-pomodoro-data
> * libgs9-common
> * task-chinese-s-desktop
> * task-chinese-t-desktop
> * wesnoth-1.12-data
> * wesnoth-1.13-data
>
> Reverse-Suggests
> ================
> * signing-party
>
> Reverse-Depends
> ===============
> * blender [amd64 arm64 armel armhf hurd-i386 i386 kfreebsd-amd64 kfreebsd-i386 mips mipsel powerpc ppc64el s390x]
> * cinnamon-desktop-environment
> * josm
> * performous
> * request-tracker4
> * texlive-fonts-extra
>
> And there is a reverse build-dependency for kodi as reported by
> build-rdeps from devscripts package. I'm attaching dd-list output for
> above with this mail.
>
> I'm considering filing bugs against these packages asking them to
> appropriately switch to fonts-noto which derived from Droid fonts and
> Open-Sans when its available in Debian.
>
> Please share your thoughts and suggestions on this. Once we all agree to
> drop fonts-droid I will send mail to debian-devel with MBF request.
>
> !NB: fonts-roboto doesn't build fonts from source at this moment, but
>      things will be changed once all the required tools are available in
>       Debian. 

Any one have any suggestions on this?. If not I will write mail
requesting MBF (though there are not a lot of packages), and start
filing bugs.
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