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

[Soren Stoutner]

On Wednesday, April 29, 2026 10:27:43 PM Mountain Standard Time Jonas 
Smedegaard wrote:
> 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.

I am sorry that this change has generated a lot of anger and bad feelings.  It 
was certainly never my intention when submitting this request.  I genuinely 
don’t understand what the bigger issues are that have been triggered, but I 
would like to understand them so that everyone can reach an amicable 
resolution.  As I understand it, the change that adds the WOFF2 fonts and 
originally closed this bug report also made some changes from CDBS to DH.

Based on the email communications, I can imagine three possible concerns:

1.  Shipping some of the fonts as WOFF2 without shipping all of them.
2.  Converting the build system from CDBS to DH.
3.  Communicating on an MR instead of the BTS.

There are possibly other concerns that I have not picked up on.

Jonas, do all of the above concern you, or just some of them?

I am really hoping that we can find a way forward on the WOFF2 issue, so that 
I can stop shipping fonts inside of the redmine package.  From a personal 
perspective, I don’t have a strong position on the other issues and would hope 
that we can do whatever accords with your wishes as the package maintainer.

-- 
Soren Stoutner
soren at debian.org
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