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

Christian PERRIER bubulle at debian.org
Sun Nov 13 13:44:20 UTC 2011


Quoting Kartik Mistry (kartik.mistry at gmail.com):

> > 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.

But Assamese script will never get an ISO-15924 code as it uses
Bengali script..:-)

Why not just put the two fonts in the *same* package:
fonts-lohit-beng... And then explain in the package description that
"This package provides fonts suitable for languages written in Bengali
script, such as Bengali and Assamese".

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