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Re: Bug#753839: texlive-fonts-extra: Please split Open Sans and either Raleway or all League fonts into separate packages



Control: reassign -1 texlive-fonts-extra 2014.20140626-1

On Sb, 05 iul 14, 20:42:01, Sergey Shnatsel Davidoff wrote:
> Source: texlive-fonts-extra
> Version: 2014.20140626-1
> Severity: wishlist
> 
> Dear Maintainer,
> 
> I am currently packaging elementary GTK theme en course of my Google Summer of
> Code project
> (https://wiki.debian.org/SummerOfCode2014/Projects/PackageElementarySoftware).
> The theme requires Open Sans and Raleway fonts to be installed, and these fonts
> are currently shipped by your package "texlive-fonts-extra".
> 
> However, "texlive-fonts-extra" combined with its dependencies is a ~300Mb
> download and occupies ~750Mb when installed. The GTK theme package is, by
> comparison, under 0.1Mb and it would be inconvenient to make it download 300Mb
> of fonts as a dependency.
> 
> I'd like to split Open Sans into a separate package, like it's done with Droid
> Sans. As for Raleway, it would probably make sense to group all the League of
> Movable Type fonts together in one package, but you're in a better position to
> judge.
> 
> I can provide a patch implementing the changes if that's OK with you.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: jessie/sid
>   APT prefers unstable
>   APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
> Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
> 
> Kernel: Linux 3.14-1-amd64 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
> Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

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