On 10:29 Thu 15 Nov , Fabian Greffrath wrote: > Am 14.11.2012 17:57, schrieb Vasudev Kamath: > >I think that is not correct because fonts-droid comes from > >droidfonts.com [1] and Roboto is not listed there. Roboto can be > >downloaded from here [2] > > Sorry, but I am afraid this is also wrong. These may be the sites on > which the fonts were initially announced. But it's surely not where > they are developed and maintained. AFAICT, you cannot even download > the Droid fonts from the site you mentioned. > > For the Debian package, the fonts are prepared from a GIT checkout, see: > <http://anonscm.debian.org/viewvc/pkg-fonts/packages/fonts-droid/trunk/debian/README.Debian?view=markup> I see I didn't knew about these site I saw the link from RFP. > > The advantage is that the fonts are taken directly from the place > where they are developed, where Google actually takes them from for > their Android releases and wherey they are automatically versioned > by means of GIT release tags. Moreover, this issue has been > discussed in Fedora before and it turns out that the GIT repository > is indeed the canonical source for Droid, see (I'd recommend to read > through the other posts of this thread as well, though they are a > bit scattered through the list archive): > <http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2012-July/169838.html> I see thanks for this link. > > If you check out that specific directory in the Android source > repository that is mentioned in the README.Debian file, you will see > that the Roboto fonts are also there: > <https://android.googlesource.com/platform/frameworks/base/+/HEAD/data/fonts/> > > It is just that they are currently stripped from the Debian package > source tarball, see README.Debian. Yes looks like maintainer of the fonts-droid wants it to be in separate package. > > So, what I suggests is to change the Debian source package name to > "fonts-android", check out the complete sources from the data/fonts > directory in the Android GIT repository based on a specific release > tag (e.g. android-4.1.2_r1) and set the source package version to > that tag (e.g. 4.1.2.r1), build two binary packages "fonts-droid" > and "fonts-roboto" from this source package. This is close to how > Fedora does it, but they are currently restricting the fonts to the > Droid* ones by means of a GIT sparse-checkout, see: > <http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/google-droid-fonts.git/tree/getdroid.sh> Idea is good but again it depends on what does the maintainer of fonts-droid thinks about this because this change requires changes to his package. So what do you suggest write to him separately or is he subscribed here? Regards -- Vasudev Kamath http://copyninja.info Connect on ~friendica: copyninja@{frndk.de | vasudev.homelinux.net} IRC nick: copyninja | vasudev {irc.oftc.net | irc.freenode.net} GPG Key: C517 C25D E408 759D 98A4 C96B 6C8F 74AE 8770 0B7E
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