[Debian-in-workers] Pending Changes todo for Package Maintainers

[Kartik Mistry]

On Sun, Nov 13, 2011 at 4:42 PM, Christian PERRIER <bubulle at debian.org> wrote:
>> We have font package called fonts-lohit-as for Assamese but Assamese
>> has not got any ISO 15924 code we had asked this in previous thread
>> and finally Santhosh told that for Assamese its Beng since it uses
>> Bengali script that way we will have 2 package with same name which
>> is not possible so we decided to go with full language name instead
>
> What I don't understand is the need to have a separate font for
> Assamese if it uses the same script than Bengali..:-)
>
> Otherwise said, the font claimed to be a font for Assamese can indeed
> also be a font for Bengali..:-)

Even script is same, both fonts looks very much different :)

> So, why not put the fonts you imagine putting in fonts-lohit-as and
> fonts-lohit-bn in the same package called "fonts-lohit-beng"?

For this, we can have separate package, fonts-lohit-assemese,
fonts-lohit-beng. And, when Assamese get its own ISO Code, we'll
rename package to it.

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