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

[Vasudev Kamath]

Fabian Greffrath <fabian at debian.org> writes:

> Hi Vasudev,
>
> Am Samstag, den 10.10.2015, 20:29 +0530 schrieb Vasudev Kamath:
>> Any one knows what really happened here?. I never followed
>> development
>> of Android fonts and now I'm confused by these changes.
>
> me neither. My only guess is that Droid fonts have been absorbed into
> Noto fonts and Roboto fonts have been split out into a separate
> independent project (as you already pointed out).

This particular commit confirms that part!. ¹ Where many of droid fonts
but might not be all are deleted. Here their fonts xml is updated to
point to noto fonts for serif and sans family ² Here is commit which
confirms removal of Roboto font due to new upstream ³

All the fonts like roboto noto are present at ⁴ with external/ 

¹ https://android.googlesource.com/platform/frameworks/base/+/a08f0f8f453bb192dd0c4cd25a5aeb05986805fc
² https://android.googlesource.com/platform/frameworks/base/+/8c1f9360ce12e43cb18e1569b59f6b1674e9ea86%5E!/#F0
³ https://android.googlesource.com/platform/frameworks/base/+/5a5f1429dec06ee392c194d2a4250b9455a2cf94
⁴ https://android.googlesource.com/platform/

>
> But this is really just based on hear-say, maybe other have a better
> educated point of view.

So now what is next plan. Here is what I think

1. Put a NEWS file mentioning that Droid fonts are now merged into Noto
   fonts and recommend it?. (Better than depending I hope).
2. Probably Noto fonts puts a Provides? I'm just suggesting so I would
   love suggestions from fellow developers here.
3. Drop fonts-roboto binary package and clearly mention about this in
   NEWS file.
4. Package Roboto from new upstream (but this needs lot of tools
   packaging)


Cheers,
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