[Pkg-fonts-devel] Bug#1041312: Bug#1041312: fonts-noto: Migrate to new upstream sources, and split the fonts according to upstream

[fabian at greffrath.com]

Hi Amr,

Am 2023-07-17 12:19, schrieb Amr Ibrahim:
> https://github.com/notofonts/notofonts.github.io

the fonts appear to be organized into different subdirectories with 
varying content.

Do you know upstream's stance on this? Is hinted/ttf always preferable 
over unhinted/* and what's the matter with the fonts in googlefonts/*? 
And how about the unhinted/variable-ttf, unhinted/slim-variable-ttf and 
unhinted/otf variants?

> You can see from that website that upstream releases individual font 
> files. So
> please try to re-package the font files in Debian accordingly.

They offer a snapshow of the entire repository for download in the 
Releases section:

https://github.com/notofonts/notofonts.github.io/releases

These could be downloaded, have the undesired fonts stripped off, get 
repacked and split up into indiviual Debian packages.

I have to admit that I just tried this for the fun, but gave up when the 
download size reached 1GB. o_O

Cheers,

  - Fabian