[Pkg-fonts-devel] Bug#1150249: fonts-play: Does not package the source

[Bastian Germann]

On 10/17/26 13:11, Sébastien Noel wrote:
> Hi Bastian,
>
> On Wed, 07 Oct 2026 16:58:20 +0200 Bastian Germann <bage at debian.org> 
> wrote:
>> Source: fonts-play
>> Version: 1.002+20150307.1-0.1
>> Severity: serious
>>
>> This does not come with source.
>> You can find the source at 
>> https://github.com/googlefonts/googlefontdirectory-hg/tree/master/ofl/play
>
>
> This font is licensed under OFL-1.1+RFN and more than 10 years [1] it 
> was already declared "de facto abandoned". There is ~zero chance to 
> reproduce a bit-for-bit identical file to the one provided upstream.
>
> I'm pretty new to this topic, so before doing a change to this 
> package, that may be considered stupid afterward, I prefer to ask you 
> directly: would it be OK repack the package with the source files, to 
> build the font in d/rules but to still install upstream provided TTF 
> files ?
>
> [1] https://bugs.debian.org/776273#25
>
> Cheers,
> Sébastien 

Hi Sébastien,

This seems to be the way that OFL-1.1-RFN fonts are handled in the Fonts 
team. Please make the suggested change.

Thanks,
Bastian