Le mar. 22 sept. 2026 à 08:05, Soren Stoutner <[email protected]> a écrit :
> On Monday, September 21, 2026 10:26:25 PM Mountain Standard Time Jérémy > Lal > wrote: > > > It > > > is unclear to me how essential they are to that documentation, but I > would > > > image that before an effort is made to completely remove them from > Debian > > > we > > > probably want to have a larger discussion on debian-devel. > > > > EOT is an old web format that targeted IE <= 8. > > It was never a source format. The font was in TTF and was converted to > EOT > > for IE8 support. > > > > We should keep the ability to convert from EOT (just in case). > > > > I would be very much surprised if those EOT files were still useful in > any > > way. > > It would be a very good idea to get rid of them. > > Looking at one example from the gimp-help-en package, it ships: > > gimp-help-en: /usr/share/gimp/3.0/help/en/images/fonts/open-sans-v13-latin- > regular.eot > gimp-help-en: /usr/share/gimp/3.0/help/en/images/fonts/open-sans-v13-latin- > regular.svg > gimp-help-en: /usr/share/gimp/3.0/help/en/images/fonts/open-sans-v13-latin- > regular.ttf > gimp-help-en: /usr/share/gimp/3.0/help/en/images/fonts/open-sans-v13-latin- > regular.woff > gimp-help-en: /usr/share/gimp/3.0/help/en/images/fonts/open-sans-v13-latin- > regular.woff2 > > My guess is that upstream ships these binary fonts, and the Debian package > just goes along with it. These accompany HTML files that are used for > documentation. > > https://salsa.debian.org/gnome-team/extras/gimp-help/-/tree/debian/latest/ > images/common/fonts?ref_type=heads > <https://salsa.debian.org/gnome-team/extras/gimp-help/-/tree/debian/latest/images/common/fonts?ref_type=heads> > > The first problem here is that this package shouldn’t ship this font at > all > because the source package does not contain the source code for the fonts > and > it is not a font package. Rather, the Debian package should remove these > fonts, depend on the fonts-open-sans package (assuming that is the same > font), > and symlink to the fonts that are shipped by that package. > Yes The second problem is that the fonts-open-sans package currently only ships > TTF versions of the font. So, before the gimp-help-en package maintainer > can > do that, the fonts-open-sans maintainer needs to start generating and > shipping > WOFF and WOFF2 (and possibly SVG) versions of the font. > This is usually the order of preferred source: svg < ttf < woff(2) and Debian ships tools to convert in that direction. Without looking at the code, my guess is that the accompanying HTML files > auto > select the font based on the browser’s capabilities. If that is the case, > the > EOT font is never actually called, because, to my knowledge, there is no > HTML > rendering engine in Debian that can display EOT fonts. So, this file > could be > safely dropped from the Debian package. > Yes. Note also that GTK or QT HTML doc viewers are based on webkit, and webkit doesn't support EOT files (even in its windows portage - really, EOT is a IE8 thing). Assuming that all of the above is true, perhaps we should create a lintian > tag > informing package maintainers that ship EOT fonts that there is no purpose > for > shipping an EOT font in Debian and it should be removed. > Which level for the tag ? Warning ? Jérémy
