Bug#1116004: Document policy for WOFF/WOFF2 fonts

From	Fabian Greffrath <fabian@greffrath.com>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.bugs.rc
Subject	Bug#1116004: Document policy for WOFF/WOFF2 fonts
Date	2026-09-21 09:00 +0200
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Hi Soren,

files in EOT-format are hopelessly obsolete. IIRC they were only 
compatible with Internet Explorer (not even Edge)!

I don't think Debian package should ship them at all, but I wouldn't 
care if they need to be included for some odd reason (haven't checked 
the GIMP case, for example). I would consider them entirely private to 
the package that contains them, like other stuff in e.g. 
/usr/share/<package>. Thus, I see no reason to factor them out into a 
fonts-eot-<package> package. Let's not encourage that, please.

We should, however, take care to keep them out of the /usr/share/fonts 
name space under any circumstances! This should be the only necessary 
check in my opinion.

Thank you!

  - Fabian

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Bug#1116004: Document policy for WOFF/WOFF2 fonts (was: Bug#1116004: fonts-noto: fonts-noto-web is wrong) Soren Stoutner <soren@debian.org> - 2026-08-25 00:20 +0200
  Bug#1116004: Document policy for WOFF/WOFF2 fonts fabian@greffrath.com - 2026-08-25 07:50 +0200
    Bug#1116004: Document policy for WOFF/WOFF2 fonts Soren Stoutner <soren@debian.org> - 2026-09-15 00:50 +0200
      Bug#1116004: Document policy for WOFF/WOFF2 fonts Fabian Greffrath <fabian@greffrath.com> - 2026-09-18 08:30 +0200
        Bug#1116004: Document policy for WOFF/WOFF2 fonts Fabian Greffrath <fabian@greffrath.com> - 2026-09-21 09:00 +0200

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