[Pkg-fonts-devel] PackageKit support

Paul Wise pabs at debian.org
Wed Dec 3 01:20:26 UTC 2008


On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 6:30 PM, Nicolas Spalinger
<nicolas_spalinger at sil.org> wrote:
...
>> BTW, how does the RPM world propose to implement this?
...
> Nicolas Mailhot - Fedora font packager extraordinaire - would probably
> know if they intend to rely on extra info in the packaging metadata or
> simply grab the font coverage info from the fonts automatically and put
> them somewhere else.

behdad is apparently writing a new tool for fontconfig, and indends to
release a new version of fontconfig with it in the next few weeks. I
suggest we also use it to generate the data for packagekit.

> Until we redo many of our open font packages maybe we could have a
> separate database with this info?  Somehow put fc-lang output in our
> review script, maybe?

Sounds like that would be a useful addition, I don't think it is a
good idea to use it for packagekit though.

-- 
bye,
pabs

http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise



More information about the Pkg-fonts-devel mailing list