Thank you for your work in packaging the Adwaita fonts and helping to make Debian better.
The Debian Fonts team has an admittedly not-always-consistent policy of trying to build fonts from source to the largest extent possible. This applies to Debian main and is the reason why I may upload fonts-noto-emoji (monochrome font) [1] to nonfree instead of to Debian main. The Debian Fonts team position is in part based on a 2006 Debian General Resolution [2]. For reference, fonts-inter [3] is available in Debian now and it uses pre-built binaries. The upstream build for Adwaita Sans uses pre-built Inter fonts and then runs a font feature freezer [4] on them to create the Adwaita fonts. That feature freezer is not in Debian yet. Adwaita Mono uses fonts-iosevka and also customizes the build. fonts-iosevka is not in Debian, apparently because it isn't built from source [5]. Finally, there is urgency because the rules are that new packages should reach Testing by April 15 [6] to be included in Debian 13. Because of how late it is, I expected that Debian 13 would not include the Adwaita fonts, but we now have a volunteer who has done a good amount of the work needed. So the question is whether the Fonts team is ok with distributing pre-built Adwaita fonts for now which would allow these fonts to be included in Debian 13 for GNOME by default, or whether we insist on building them from source. References -------------- [1] https://bugs.debian.org/1075903 [2] https://www.debian.org/vote/2006/vote_004 [3] https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/fonts-inter [4] https://github.com/twardoch/fonttools-opentype-feature-freezer [5] https://bugs.debian.org/973995 [6] https://release.debian.org/testing/freeze_policy.html#soft Thank you, Jeremy Bícha
