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

Vasudev Kamath kamathvasudev at gmail.com
Sun Apr 17 07:19:22 UTC 2011


On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 1:33 PM, Arjuna Rao Chavala
<arjunaraoc at googlemail.com> wrote:
>
>
> 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.
I've done this change.
>>
>> 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.
Thanks for the feedback. :)
>
> Cheers
> Arjun
>
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