[Pkg-fonts-devel] "foundry" part is ? (Re: Font packages renaming mini-HOWTO?)

[Hideki Yamane]

Hi,

On Sun, 19 Jun 2011 13:28:01 +0800
Paul Wise <pabs at debian.org> wrote:
> My vote in decreasing order of preference:
> 
> >  b. should not be present at all unless there are multiple packages with the same name
> >  a. to be optional


On Sun, 19 Jun 2011 07:09:47 +0200
Christian PERRIER <bubulle at debian.org> wrote:
> >   a. to be optional
> >   b. should not be present at all unless there are multiple packages with the same name
> >   c. other
> 
> I'd vote for a., as a "should"
> 
> Something like "When a foundry or font author provides several fonts
> that are packaged separately, package names should include the
> foundry (or author's) name before the font name:
> fonts-<foundry|author->fontname".

 Conflict :)


 I'll vote to "b".  It's simple, long package name would not be so useful
 except when there's a conflict/confusion in it.
 
 However, not just only "same" but "or similar" name. For example, I have 
 "umefont" and "umeplus" package. umeplus is umefont variant but created by 
 not same author. Then, I want to say fonts-horai-umefont (um, should I remove
 'font'? ;) and fonts-xxx-umeplus.


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 Hideki Yamane     henrich @ debian.or.jp/org
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