[Pkg-fonts-devel] Bug#1116004: Bug#1116004: marked as done (fonts-noto-core: Request to ship WOFF2 variants of NotoSans.)

[Jonas Smedegaard]

Quoting Soren Stoutner (2026-04-29 23:21:23)
> On Tuesday, April 28, 2026 10:04:22 PM Mountain Standard Time Jonas Smedegaard 
> wrote:
> > Control: reopen -1 !
> > Control: severity -1 serious
> > 
> > I think is wrong for fonts-noto to provide a binary package
> > containing only a synthesized variation for a minor subset of its
> > fonts.
> 
> Are you saying you would prefer that it shipped all the fonts in WOFF2 format 
> instead of just a subset?  If so, I would imagine that would be easy to do.

With the subset you are quoting, I intended to say that the chosen
solution for the larger problem that I am only vaguely touching in my
full post and not discussed at all before the package change, is one
which I find wrong for several reasons.

No, I will not begin a discussion from "should we do more of this?" but
want to discuss the bigger picture.

 - Jonas

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