[Pkg-fonts-devel] fonts-cantarell?

Fabian Greffrath fabian at greffrath.com
Tue Jul 26 07:50:42 UTC 2011


Now we have two directories in pkg-fonts SVN: packages/fonts-cantarell 
and packages/cantarell-fonts. :/

Am 25.07.2011 13:13, schrieb Nicolas Spalinger:
> On 23/07/11 21:53, Christian PERRIER wrote:
>> Folks, I have a really completely ready package in SVN.
>>
>> So, should we upload or are the issues discussed in
>> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=617214 still worth
>> waiting, waiting, waiting?
>
>
> Dear Christian,
>
> Thanks for picking up the work on this!
>
>
> Quick comments (more later):
>
> It seems fonts-cantarell/trunk is not yet fully synced with upstream
> (missing changes added to version 0.0.5 and 0.0.6 and a bunch of
> documentation fixes). I will commit them to our repo from the current
> GNOME git repo.
> With these changes various sfd files and the otf files have the expected
> versionning (0.0.6 currently) but other source files still have older
> versions. I guess we can focus on shipping the .otf in the binary
> package as is the case now.
>
> Given that the upstream buildpath still has bugs I suggested we ignore
> it in debhelper through overrides of dh_auto_configure and
> dh_auto_build. Seems like a good solution for now.
>
> There are authors of items in the source tree which are not credited in
> the README. Maybe the packaging metadata can help there?
>
> Also as suggested in
> http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-fonts-devel/2011-May/006626.html
> I'd consider releasing the packaging under something different than GPL+
> given potential future interactions of build scripts with other existing
> licensing of the font: what about something like "under the same license
> as the font software?"
>
>
> HTH,
>
>





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