[Pkg-fonts-devel] Again: location of WOFF[2] files (Was: Update for fonts-sil-annapurna)

Jonas Smedegaard jonas at jones.dk
Mon Jun 26 15:22:24 UTC 2017


Quoting Fabian Greffrath (2017-06-26 08:53:51)
> Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
>> Hos about adding a config snippet to fontconfig-config package with a
>> <rejectfont> pattern rejecting (for now only) woff and woff2 fonts?
>
> That would be trivial to implement (and has already been suggested in 
> the fontconfig upstream bug report), but I wouldn't want to introduce 
> such a severe functional deviation from upstream as a Debian patch.

Quoting Fabian Greffrath (2017-06-26 14:50:05)
> Because we generally want to deviate as little from upstream as 
> possible, right?

I disagree that adding a configfile to the Debian package constitutes 
"severe functional deviation", and I find it plain wrong to scatter 
fonts around in the system to please fontconfig.

 - Jonas

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