Heads up: Droid fonts update in Rawhide

Simone Caronni negativo17 at gmail.com
Sun Jul 15 21:00:22 UTC 2012


--Simone

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On Jul 15, 2012 10:42 PM, "Nicolas Mailhot" <nicolas.mailhot at laposte.net>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I've just pushed new Droid font packages to Fedora Rawhide.
> http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=330644
>
> Droid are complex font families with a difficult upstream and the
> following caveats apply:
>
> A. I used a few hundred MiBs of Android git checkout as source. The fonts
> are also available in the Google font directory but it does not permit
> convenient checkout (one either needs to collect download URLs
> file-by-file, or perform a full-repository multi-gig mercurial checkout),
> its relationship with android as upstream is unclear, and it has been
> known to cut-down fonts to limit their weight when used in CSS files. As
> for other web sites, they are generally more convenient, but their
> upstream status is unclear, and they love to zap licensing terms to
> “simplify” their users' lives (even in Google-sponsored sites). So I
> concluded that what was good enough for Android was good enough for us.
>
> B. The fonts follow Keith Packard's “one font per script” ideal but I
> seriously question if fontconfig as it exists today is ready to process
> such an ideal. Expect to hit bugs in fontconfig or in apps with
> approximative fontconfig calls (the first generation of this package
> triggered a Chromium bug; Android uses its own font and font fallback tech
> so those fonts are not heavily tested in a fontconfig environment).
> Fedora fontconfig files for Droid are available here:
> http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/gitweb/?p=google-droid-fonts.git;a=tree
>
> C. I tried to dispatch the Arabic variants in the Latin family they were
> designed to complement, but I may have misunderstood the design info
> available online.
>
> D. Lots of new scripts here. i18n and l10n teams probably need to take a
> look to decide it that changes font defaults for some locales, and if
> compts changes are needed.
>
> E. If the package description does not correctly attribute the main
> designers involved, please educate me and I'll correct it.
>
> F. I've zapped DroidSansFallbackFull DroidSansFallbackLegacy
> DroidSansArabic DroidNaskh-Regular-SystemUI that seemed redundant. If they
>  provide something missing in the other files, please tell me what it is
> and I'll fix the packages.
>
> And that's all for this notification. Needless to say for this level of
> changes those packages will only be available in F18 after F18 QA and
> won't ever be pushed to previous Fedora versions.
>
> Best regards,
>
> --
> Nicolas Mailhot
>
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