Quoting Vasudev Kamath (kamathvasudev@gmail.com): > Umm not sure how it is actually built but by looking at the package > source I see they are using some scripts which are located here > > http://anonscm.debian.org/viewvc/pkg-fonts/packages/ttf-freefont/trunk/debian/rules?view=markup > http://anonscm.debian.org/viewvc/pkg-fonts/packages/ttf-freefont/trunk/debian/scripts/ > > Are these the same scripts as present in the upstream SVN? These scripts are not meant to build the whole font. Their purpose is to strip out some Unicode ranges from the font and create a specific TTF file for the one and only use of the Debian Installer. The point here being then size reduction (Debian Installer is very constrained in size). To Steve (we had mails exchanges together in the past about Freefont maintenance in Debian) : Davide Viti, who was mostly maintaining the Debian package up to now, wants to slowly step out....at least from being the main (and only) maintainer. The maintenance of the FreeFont package in Debian (and as a side effect, Ubuntu) will be taken over collectively by the "pkg-fonts" team (pkg-fonts-devel@lists.debian.org) that already maintains a big bunch of various free fonts for Debian.
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