Hi Fabian, Fabian Greffrath <fab...@debian.org> writes:
> Am Donnerstag, den 01.03.2018, 17:36 +0100 schrieb Fabian Greffrath: >> etc. Another alternative would be to split the packages up by groups >> of variants, or whatever. > > I think I have a better idea: In e.g. the Libreoffice font chooser the > fonts represent themselves as > - Monoid > - Monoid HalfLoose > - Monoid HalfTight > - Monoid Loose > - Monoid Tight > - Monoisome > - Monoisome HalfLoose > - Monoisome HalfTight > - Monoisome Loose > - Monoisome Tight > i.e. they are grouped by their tracking. > > It will probably make sense to split the package up in the same way, so > we'd be down to "just a few hundred" font files per package. This is a good idea. We can provide fonts with fonts-monoid-[variant] and fonts-monoisome-[variant] > > Needless to say, probably, but I am a DD and also part of the Debian > fonts team and I'd love to help discuss and implement a proper solution > for the package split-up! Feel free to suggest and join in the maintenance work :-). It was long pending and recently I noticed that it could be already built since I've uploaded latest fontforge to our archive. I actually didn't notice the size of deb file until Adam mentioned about it in IRC. Cheers, -- Vasudev
