Create a Debian package for "freedom fonts"

[bnvk]

Wouldn't it be awesome if one could do sudo apt-get install freedom-fonts and then get all sorts of cool open licensed "design-y" fonts installed on your Linux machine? I sure think it would be!!!

I started working towards this using Launchpad.net as per @eighthave instruction, as my Debian (and packaging in general) knowledge is are lacking. I need to revist this effort and will update as I make progress!

[davelab6]

https://packages.debian.org/jessie/fonts-indic might be a good reference for this

[eighthave]

Good to see progress here! I can help out with the process. One thing to note is that the whole Google web fonts collection are free fonts that could be packaged and included in Debian.

[davelab6]

I am contracted by Google to manage the collection.

I just wrote and published
https://github.com/googlefonts/fontbakery/pull/661/files so you can see
where I hope to go this year which will help Debian and similar folks,
since at the moment a lot of the families aren't developed like regular
(libre) software and probably can't belong in main just yet.