[Pkg-fonts-devel] Bug#1041312: Bug#1041312: fonts-noto: Migrate to new upstream sources, and split the fonts according to upstream

[Jonas Smedegaard]

Hi Amr,

Quoting Amr Ibrahim (2023-07-17 12:19:49)
> Upstream has new sources of fonts-noto:
> 
> https://notofonts.github.io/
> 
> https://github.com/notofonts/notofonts.github.io
> 
> You can see from that website that upstream releases individual font files. So
> please try to re-package the font files in Debian accordingly.

Thanks for reporting this.  Honestly I thought it had been reported long
ago - I remember upstream also reaching out about it, but cannot easily
locate now where that conversation took place.

The URI you point at is confusing, however: Upstream use git both to
track _sources_ for the Noto fonts and as a means to _distribute_
precompiled fonts - and notofonts.github.io is (mainly, at least) about
the latter.

The change needed is not only to shift to a different source location,
but also to change to actually compile the fonts from source, not only
redistribute precompiled font files as has been done until now.

I have a draft source package lying around since a few years now, but
have not yet set aside the time to organize it for use with those
several hundred source packages that fonts-noto will become...


> Please also notice that noto-cjk now has its own source repository:
> https://github.com/notofonts/noto-cjk
> 
> So please package noto-cjk in its own source package if possible.

That is a different issue.  Please report issues individually, not
bundled, as it is much easier to merge if issues turns out to be too
similar than to split a bundled of issues being discussed together.

Regarding this issue specifically, don't bother, however: It is a
duplicate of an ancient issue already solved since quite some time - see
bug#805021 or the source package fonts-noto-cjk).


 - Jonas

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