[Pkg-fonts-devel] Bug#858609: Bug#858609: fonts-lato: woff and woff2 files required

[Adam Borowski]

On Fri, Mar 24, 2017 at 11:16:18PM +0530, Soumya Vadlamannati wrote:
> Package: fonts-lato
> Severity: important
> 
> Dear Maintainer,
> 
> 	 I want to use Lato for a web project.The .woff and .woff2 files are
> not available for Lato.  Please include them along with the .ttf files so
> that we can use the font for web applications easily.

I don't see the benefit in shipping it pre-converted in the package, for two
reasons:
* it is trivial to convert it from .ttf to a format you want
* if you care about file size (and if you don't, you'd use .ttf directly),
  you hardly ever want to use the whole font with all ranges you'd never use
  -- if your page uses, say, ASCII only, subsetting will let you serve only
  95 glyphs instead of 2166.

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