On Tue, 8 Aug 2017, Garrett R. wrote: > Ubuntu font ... requires proprietary software to build > (https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=603157). > Can a change be made ... ?
debian-devel: "Can Ubuntu font be added to a Debian repository?" https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2017/08/msg00218.html https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2017/08/threads.html#00218 ubuntu-devel-discuss: "Ubuntu font in debian repository" https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel-discuss/2017-August/017613.html Hello Garrett, Using a reproducible automated build, with a libre toolchain, for the Ubuntu Font Family is the ultimate goal yes. This needed/still needs: 1. development of libre tool chains (== work usable by all fonts...) 2. building the UFF fonts purely from source, using that toolchain 3. pragmatically proving non-regression with existing binary-only hand-built versions out there (as a precondition to switch-over) For (1), there as been lots of work of libre toolchains in the last 18 months, via Dalton Maag and latterly a large push backed by the Google Fonts team to make generic libre font toolchains, that are freely usable by all. For (2), there is an early test version **not ready for release** of a open toolchain buildable 'Ubuntu' at: https://github.com/daltonmaag/ubuntu Using a new-two feedback mechanism this branch was used to test and create further required toolchain features---ultimately for the benefit of all free/libre fonts. (Please resist distributing builds from this until it is known to be at the point of provable non-regression); For (3): Proof of non-regression. The Ubuntu Font Family is widely used all over the place (including huge numbers of websites and from within Google Docs). This means there is an additional responsibility to prove *non-regression* between the "new" automated-build-form- source-development branch, against the prior binaries built by hand. This type of testing requires tooling---Google Fonts has been working on automated regression testing, which should help with this. -*- -*- -*- Yes it is taking a long time, but the world of libre fonts progressed a lot in the last five years. Once all of this pieces come together, our collective dream can be fulfilled too. Until this it is a work in progress, -Paul