Le jeu. 15 oct. 2026 à 19:49, Soren Stoutner <[email protected]> a écrit :
> On Saturday, October 10, 2026 10:38:38 AM Mountain Standard Time Jan > Claeys > wrote: > > On Tue, 2026-10-06 at 08:33 -0700, Soren Stoutner wrote: > > > On Monday, October 5, 2026 8:43:24 AM Mountain Standard Time Jan > > > > > > Claeys wrote: > > > > On Fri, 2026-10-02 at 21:16 -0700, Soren Stoutner wrote: > > > > > There appears to be no use for EOT fonts in Debian (Debian has no > > > > > packages that can display them, no modern browser on the web can > > > > > display them). > > > > > > > > The only use case I can still see is if you have web content that > > > > needs to be displayed with a specific font on embedded/IoT Windows > > > > clients (e.g. some industrial barcode scanners/tablets), which > > > > appears to be the only platform where IE is still supported. > > > > I should say that many such devices run Android nowadays. > > That’s a good point. > > > > That is a good point. Looking over the list of EOT fonts attached to > > > the grandparent email, do you see any that you think might be > > > targeting embedded/IoT Windows clients? > > > > I don't know all of those packages, but anything that is only > > documentation I wouldn't worry about removing EOT (and possibly SVG > > fonts too). > > The problem with these EOT fonts in document packages is that they are > DFSG- > non-free because they are not built from source (and these packages do not > even contain the source). They are included as binary font files in > upstream > tarballs and passed along during the packaging process. > > The only DFSG-free way to ship an EOT font is in a font package, with the > TTF > or OTF variant of the font being built from source and then compressed > into an > EOT font using mkeot, which is part of the eot-utils package. Jérémy Lal > has > proposed removing eot-utils from Debian unless there ends up being some > use > for EOT fonts we haven’t yet considered. > There will still be some tools, like node-webfont. Also soon I'll upload node-svgtofont, which is a nice wrapper to recreate fonts out of a collection of svg icons (which is very popular). > > > ERP software like Tryton maybe? > > > > In general, upstream for each package would be the best place to get an > > answer, so maybe the policy (and maybe the linter) can suggest that? > > Yes. If we decide to move forward with having lintian recommend removal > of > EOT fonts, I would hope that package maintainers contact upstream to > recommend > they be removed there. > > -- > Soren Stoutner > [email protected]
