[Pkg-fonts-devel] Updated fonts-android has fonts missing

[Vasudev Kamath]

Jonas Smedegaard <dr at jones.dk> writes:

>>> It is meaningful to package fallback DroidSans fonts: It has reverse 
>>> dependencies! But it sure makes sense to check if current upstream is 
>>> bogus - i.e. if development has moved somewhere else.
>>
>> Hmm but logs in their repository talks a lot about merge in notofonts 
>> I didn't observe carefully though.
>>
>> If it makes sense to package only fallback fonts it can be done but we 
>> also need to check latest noto sources to see if it has Droid series 
>> merged then we probably need to provide some sort of movement from 
>> fonts-droid to newer upstream.
>>
>> We need to drop fonts-roboto also and there is no alternative as long 
>> as we get all build tools and fontforge in proper shape or else we 
>> need to provide prebuilt ttf/otf files but I guess that is no longer 
>> recommended right?
>
> That's multiple questions, some more complex to handle than others.
>
> If you raise those questions together, the discussion risk being 
> confusing and drag out.

Thats true but I just mentioned all questions which arrise due to the
changes in upstream :-). We can take them one at a time but all of them
are related.
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