[Pkg-fonts-devel] RFS: ttf-washra-fonts, a set of ethiopic fonts

[Eremit7]

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Thanks for your comments

Am 06.11.2010 02:31, schrieb Paul Wise:
> On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 10:11 PM, Eremit7 <eremit7 at gmx.de> wrote:
> 
>> WashRa is, simply, a set of eleven Ethiopic fonts. All of them support
>> the Ethiopic standard included in Unicode 3.0. The fonts are: Ethiopia
> 
> Unicode has included several changes to Ethiopic in several new
> versions, including the most recent 6.0.0 release so supporting only
> Unicode 3.0 doesn't inspire confidence.
> 
This comes from an unexpected direction, I did not thought of Unicode
changes to allredy released scripts.

>> since I don't feel that a software unchanged for years needs a patch
> 
> That combined with the above makes it seem like these fonts are
> abandoned upstream and thus might not be suitable for Debian. Please
> talk to upstream and find out if they intend to continue to develop
> the fonts into the future to support Unicode 6.0.0 and beyond.
> 
> Please run a recent fontlint over the fonts and report the results upstream.
> 

Upstream responded to an queastion concerning the licensing, I will find
out if it intents to adjust the fonts to the new Unicode releases.

> New font package names should probably not use the ttf-foo convention
> and definitely not both ttf- and -fonts conventions. I don't know
> exactly what we decided the new convention should be, maybe moving to
> what Fedora use would be a good idea.
> 

If I remember correctly the discussion on this list did not came to a
conclusion. Nevertheless this issue has time till the other more
important is solved.

Eremit7
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