[Pkg-fonts-devel] packaging "Grünewalt VA"
Andreas B. Mundt
andi.mundt at web.de
Thu Jul 22 12:39:02 UTC 2010
Tag: ITP
Hi,
first, many thanks for the instructions.
(for reference:
<URL:http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-fonts-devel/2010-July/005293.html>)
> Since the freeze is very close you may not make it.
>
> Retitle the RFP bug to ITP and set yourself as the owner to indicate
> that you are working on it
> Take a look at one of the pkg-fonts packages that build-depends on
> fontforge to find out how to build the font from source and how to
> package fonts in general. Please note that for new packages you do not
> need any of the defoma stuff that you might see in some of the font
> packages.
Did not find a fonts package that build-depends on fontforge, but
... (see below)
> I note that the font is listed as GPL licensed, I'd recommend asking
> upstream to add the standard GPL font exception to the license:
>
> http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#FontException
I looked into the license (OFL ?!) and found:
"5) [...] The requirement for fonts to remain under this license does
not apply to any document created using the Font Software."
So I guess this is fine.
> Then get someone from pkg-fonts or DebianEdu to review the package and
> upload it.
I prepared a draft package at:
<URL:http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/debian-edu/people/andi/packages/gruenewald/>
To create it, I used the ttf-dzongkha-package source from
<URL:http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/pkg-fonts/packages/ttf-dzongkha/trunk/>
as a kind of template. I seems to be equally simple and under the same
license.
There is one issue I am not sure about how to handle it properly: The
upstream source is distributed in a .zip file which contains file
names with spaces.
Up to now I unziped the source, replaced all whitespace characters by
"_" and tar'ed the resulting directory to obtain the orig.tar.gz.
I put a README.source into debian/ to describe that.
So if anybody from debian-edu or pkg-fonts could have a look, that would
be great. In the long run it would be nice to use the pkg-fonts svn
repository to maintain it.
Many thanks so far, tips, tricks and critics welcome.
Best regards
Andi
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