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I fixed the URL (not pushed as a new version yet), but not the sources. Is there really no proper stable release for these?

Look like they have a version of 1.03 until they drop using versions...
maybe unless the fonts change, the version is same as first android version with the cnaged font

but I personally prefer keep the actual version unless the font have some info build-in.

There really isn't any sane source for these fonts (ofcourse), so I am not really feeling much for "fixing" the source=() to just become a list of long and cumbersome urls.

I thing the more uptodate source it the Android one I post, so I think is better use that.
As it the uptream project source and not a tarball that could be modiffied by the host for.

Seems the source might be here now https://github.com/google/fonts

That's not the origin though, they just pull it in to that web fonts repository.

From my looking https://github.com/google/fonts/tree/master/apache this appears to be a repository made by the actual Google Fonts team itself, and the droid fonts are not available in other repositories I can see. I am thinking this android source (https://android.googlesource.com/platform/frameworks/base.git/+/master/data/fonts/)is downstream from whatever the *ultimate* internal source of these files which could be google internal. The android source also doesn't contain all the droid language files either. What do you guys think?

The Droid fonts were deprecated in Android in favour of Roboto and Noto. It's not a good place to obtain the fonts.

It's likely that there isn't a proper internal source for these either, since it's really a dead project now.

Yes exactly what I was saying, Android would not be a good place to find them. Checking again, there seems to be some language files not in this source:
https://github.com/google/fonts/tree/master/apache
The Hebrew Droid Sans files are missing and so are the fallback ones (not sure what these are). I ran fc-scan and compared the output on the DroidSans Monospace between our version and the one on the google github, and the github version actually had one language removed, whatever language "mo" is, not sure what this is, but in any case it does not seem there are any good places to obtain these fonts that are any "better" or "newer" than the tarball that we are hosting ourselves. Not sure what the resolution of this should be.

That deppend but this this point if both sources differ in a few files we can either add the ones that the other is missing to the finall package.

They has moved to roboto/noto so our option is just merge the work of both to bring the last shipped product or just drop droid to aur and package instead roboto/noto as a replacement with the apropiate provide fonts-family for chromium fonts needings.

There's really no reason to worry about web pages. They'll already use @font-face to serve fonts to people without them for cases like the Droid fonts where many people will not (most Windows, OSX/iOS and Linux users).

The Droid Fonts were removed from the Google Fonts repository:
https://github.com/google/fonts/pull/1275

I'm closing this task as upstream is dead.