Steve McIntyre

Don't Fear the Secure Boot

What is Secure Boot for?

Does it boost security for me? Does it hurt me?

There are lots of misconceptions and fears about it.

Fontbakery is an open-source utility for testing and reporting issues with binary font files. It allows fully customizable checks and reports output in a variety of formats, and it works independently of the source format used in the font package. It can run checks for “design issues”, compatibility and correctness issues, and packaging issues.

Fontbakery is used regularly on all of the fonts in the Google Fonts library as part of the project’s Continuous Integration workflow on GitHub, and it is in regular use at a number of commercial font foundries as well. This session takes a look at what Fontbakery has to say about Debian’s font packages, what would be needed to use Fontbakery as a testing and QA tool for Debian, and whether it could potentially simplify font packagers’ maintenance burden and bring benefits to end users.

The fonts packaged in the Debian archive span several decades, a wide variety of formats, and come with a great many licenses attached — including many singleton licenses that pre-date standardization. The fonts that are built from source also vary considerably in their build system and robustness. Those factors, together, complicate maintenance. Cross-format QA tools like Fontbakery could help lower the overhead required.

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Don't Fear the Secure Boot

Time To Bake The Fonts!

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