[Pkg-fonts-devel] RFS: ttf-rufscript

Andrew a.starr.b at gmail.com
Sun Oct 19 19:27:51 UTC 2008


On Sun, Oct 19, 2008 at 2:00 PM, Nicolas Spalinger
<nicolas_spalinger at sil.org> wrote:
>
> [...]
>>> I would be glad if someone uploaded this package for me.
>>
>>
>> Would you mind joining the pkg-fonts project on Alioth, the mailing
>> list and include your package in the SVN there?
>>

I've joined the pkg-fonts project and committed the packaging for
ttf-rufscript. For some reason it took awhile to get my ssh
authorization working, but it's up and running now. Please review...

> Quick note to mention that I've been in touch with the upstream designer
>  of Rufscript (I sent him release/tarball structure recommendations and
> a packaging template) and invited him to join the team and co-maintain
> his fonts. He's released various other open fonts and AFAICT is
> interested in helping maintain them.
>

It would be better to have a real upstream tarball with an explicit
copyright notification. Right now I just have a README.Debian file
explaining that I have generated the tarball myself. I hope that is
acceptable.

> Maybe you could work together on these?

I'd love to help out...

> And welcome to the team :-)
>

Thanks!

- Andrew Starr-Bochicchio



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