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Opened 2016-06-09T13:26Z by hellekin @hellekin

Packaging Devuan fonts

The fonts used by Devuan should be available on the system from the installation.

  • Open Sans
  • Source Code Pro
  • devuan-icons

Open Sans

OpenSans can be installed withtexlive-fonts-extra:

$ dpkg -S OpenSans-Regular.ttf
texlive-fonts-extra: /usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/truetype/public/opensans/OpenSans-Regular.ttf

This is sub-optimal because it's a large package to install for just one font. Moreover, it's build mostly with dependencies on font packages, so havingfonts-opensansorfonts-devuanwould be fine.

Source Code Pro

Looking on my system, I see that Source Code Pro comes handy with a number of packages:

$ dpkg -S SourceCodePro-Regular.ttf
ruby-facets-doc: /usr/share/doc/ruby-facets-doc/api/core/fonts/SourceCodePro-Regular.ttf.gz
ruby-uuidtools-doc: /usr/share/doc/ruby-uuidtools-doc/rdoc/fonts/SourceCodePro-Regular.ttf.gz
ruby-facets-doc: /usr/share/doc/ruby-facets-doc/api/standard/fonts/SourceCodePro-Regular.ttf.gz
ruby-pg: /usr/share/doc/ruby-pg/rdoc/fonts/SourceCodePro-Regular.ttf.gz
ruby-builder-doc: /usr/share/doc/ruby-builder-doc/rdoc/fonts/SourceCodePro-Regular.ttf.gz
ruby-luabridge: /usr/share/doc/ruby-luabridge/html/fonts/SourceCodePro-Regular.ttf.gz
ruby-magic: /usr/share/doc/ruby-magic/rdoc/fonts/SourceCodePro-Regular.ttf.gz
ruby-github-markup: /usr/share/doc/ruby-github-markup/doc/fonts/SourceCodePro-Regular.ttf.gz
ruby-kramdown: /usr/share/doc/ruby-kramdown/rdoc/fonts/SourceCodePro-Regular.ttf.gz
ruby-redcloth: /usr/share/doc/ruby-redcloth/rdoc/fonts/SourceCodePro-Regular.ttf.gz
libruby2.1:amd64: /usr/lib/ruby/2.1.0/rdoc/generator/template/darkfish/fonts/SourceCodePro-Regular.ttf
ruby-foreman-doc: /usr/share/doc/ruby-foreman-doc/html/fonts/SourceCodePro-Regular.ttf.gz
ruby-bdb: /usr/share/doc/ruby-bdb/rdoc/fonts/SourceCodePro-Regular.ttf.gz
ruby-activeldap-doc: /usr/share/doc/ruby-activeldap-doc/rdoc/fonts/SourceCodePro-Regular.ttf.gz
ruby-em-hiredis-doc: /usr/share/doc/ruby-em-hiredis-doc/html/fonts/SourceCodePro-Regular.ttf.gz

This looks like an unnecessary clutter for a font that should have its own package.

Devuan Icons

Thedevuan-iconsfont used for the Web icons should also be distributed with a package.

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  • hellekin @hellekin mentioned in issue #7 · 2016-06-09T13:15Z

    mentioned in issue #7