[Pkg-fonts-devel] ttf-gfs-porson_1.000-2_i386.changes REJECTED

Thomas Viehmann tv at beamnet.de
Wed Apr 23 09:53:29 UTC 2008


Hi Nicolas,

Nicolas Spalinger wrote:
> It's rather hard to provide good font specimens in another format. And 
> these particular set of pdf specimens have been made with Indesign, 
> which means having that kind of source file is not very useful for 
> Debian. If we had png files as specimen would we need to provide some 
> sort of source too?
All files in Debian need to be reproducible from source. As this seems to be a 
common problem for font packages, it would be great if you could find a way to 
produce font samples using free software. If the fonts can be used with LaTeX, 
using that might be a good way.

> We can fix the description-related bug.
Thanks. While you're at it, you still have the wrong domain in the debian/copyright.

Kind regards

T.



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