Package: fonts-monoid Version: 0.61-1 Severity: wishlist Hi there,
thank you very much for maintaining this very interesting font in Debian. However, $ dpkg -L fonts-monoid | grep \.ttf | wc -l 4000 WTF is that?! This is exactly 800 different font variants per style (Bold, Italic, Regular, Retina and Monoisone Regular). Also, I find more than 400 MB installed size for a font package rather unbearable: $ apt-cache show fonts-monoid | grep Size Installed-Size: 441617 Size: 2013832 I really don't think it is necessary to include *all* font variants and combinations thereof in the Debian package. If you e.g. visit the Monoid homepage at https://larsenwork.com/monoid/ and click the "Download" button, you receive a nice ZIP file which contains 4 files with only the base variants for each style. I strongly suggest to split the package up into at least a fonts-monoid package which includes the four base variants as well as fonts-monoisome and fonts-monoid-extra, which includes all the other variants. Or, maybe even better, split it up into more -extra packages, e.g. fonts-monoid-regular-extra, fonts-monoid-italic-extra, etc. Another alternative would be to split the packages up by groups of variants, or whatever. However, the packages need a big fat warning regarding their installed size and the sheer number of installe dfont files. Thank you! - Fabian -- System Information: Debian Release: buster/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'experimental'), (500, 'unstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.14.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled -- no debconf information
