On Wednesday, June 10, 2026 12:39:36 AM Mountain Standard Time [email protected] wrote: > Am 2026-06-10 01:41, schrieb Soren Stoutner: > > 1. Is there a general consensus in Debian that WOFF2 and other web > > fonts > > should be shipped by font packages (when there is a need for them) and > > that > > they should be installed under /usr/share/fonts/? > > In the font packages that I maintain, I generally keep the web fonts in > the same package as the TTF/OTF variants, but keep them out of the > /usr/share/fonts name space. The reason is that (1) they are duplicates > anyway and (2) fontconfig may pick them up as valid candidates for font > rendering but they will mostly fail to get rendered. (I think their > headers look like regular TTF fonts, but their actual content is > compressed).
1. Where do you place them? I see some examples of /usr/share/custom-font- directory/. https://packages.debian.org/sid/all/fonts-atkinson-hyperlegible-web/filelist 2. Is anyone aware of any problems caused by the packages that do place them in /usr/share/fonts/WOFF/ or /usr/share/fonts/WOFF2/? https://packages.debian.org/sid/all/fonts-dejavu-web/filelist https://packages.debian.org/sid/all/fonts-thai-tlwg-web/filelist Here is an example of a package that does both. I am not sure what the purpose of that is: https://packages.debian.org/sid/all/fonts-materialdesignicons-webfont/filelist -- Soren Stoutner [email protected]
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