Quoting Vasudev Kamath (2015-10-18 09:49:46) > Fabian Greffrath <fabian@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) Please elaborate on your points above: I summarize in rather compact form and I have trouble extracting what you mean by each point. E.g. describe which binary package you suggest should provide which other (virtual?) package name, in which binary package a NEWS file should be added, etc. - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private
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