On Thursday, October 15, 2026 1:50:39 PM Mountain Standard Time Jan Claeys 
wrote:
> On Thu, 2026-10-15 at 10:49 -0700, Soren Stoutner wrote:
> > On Saturday, October 10, 2026 10:38:38 AM Mountain Standard Time Jan
> > 
> > Claeys wrote:
> > > 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).
> 
> What I meant is: “I wouldn’t worry about breaking things by removing
> EOT files from documentation”.
> 
> Probably nobody is going to read documentation for The GIMP or similar
> on an appliance running embedded Windows, and in most cases (e.g. for
> The GIMP) those font files are not really _needed_ to begin with, just
> used for a “house style”, so text would still be readable without them.

Gotcha.  I misunderstood what you meant.  I agree that I don’t forsee any 
possible breaking with removing the EOT fonts from these packages.

-- 
Soren Stoutner
[email protected]

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