[Debian-in-workers] Feedback required on ttf-indic-fonts

Arjuna Rao Chavala arjunaraoc at googlemail.com
Mon Apr 4 08:03:44 UTC 2011


On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 1:25 PM, Vasudev Kamath <kamathvasudev at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi all,
> I've updated ttf-indic-fonts package below is the changes I've done
>  * debian/control
>    + Removed the Suggests fields from binary font packages
>  * debian/rules
>    + rules file is now one liner to meet dh7 standard
>  * created install files for all font packages (udeb,deb)
>  * Updated README.Debian file to contain version of each font
>    file
>  * Updated Lohit fonts for hindi,tamil,telugu and gujarati
>    to latest upstream version
>
> For Telugu I  request Lohit-te be the default, as Pothana font does not
render bold style well in Firefox.

> In summary the package now matches dh7 standards and defoma related
> stuffs are removed. I would request every one to test the package and
> provide the feedback.
>
> I also request every one to help us in changing the name of
> ttf-indic-fonts to new font naming policy (drafting is still in
> progress in pkg-fonts team). New font naming will be in this form
> fonts-<foundry>-name where
> foundry - will be author or company maintaining fonts. Whether foundry
> is mandatory or not is still under discussion in pkg-fonts
> name - will be name of font
>
> Maintainer would be better.

Cheers
Arjun
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