On Thu, 30 Nov 2017 06:41:05 +1100 Ben Finney <bign...@debian.org> wrote: > So, this bug should be resolved by: > > * Removing the package until its true build dependencies (including > the build dependency to compile the fonts from source) are all in > Debian. > > * Working with others to get those build dependencies into Debian. > > * Updating the package build rules to build the packages from the > actual source.
If I understand the source package correctly, then the missing build dependency for building the font from the svg files is grunt-webfont. Packaging grunt-webfont is not trivial because it has many dependencies itself which are not yet packaged for Debian. I fixed this issue in my package searx, which also needs to build a webfont from several svg files by executing fontforge directly from debian/rules: https://browse.dgit.debian.org/searx.git/commit/?id=ee78cbb84fcf3e4176a1cdc88d3a9b1a136a5fcf The interesting files are debian/ionicons/generate.py which is the Python script doing the conversion using fontforge, and debian/ionicons/input.json which is the input to that Python script. The Python script could be modified to not require input.json but I didn't want to deviate from the upstream version. Then in debian/rules I just do: python ./debian/ionicons/generate.py < ./debian/ionicons/input.json Hope this helps! cheers, josch
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