[Pkg-fonts-devel] Fonts packages naming policy (was: Re: any idea when we will have font-anonymous-pro in debian/ubuntu)

Paul Wise pabs at debian.org
Tue Jun 21 04:02:02 UTC 2011


2011/6/21 Christian PERRIER <bubulle at debian.org>:

> So, the policy would be: fonts-fontname and "fontname" can optionnally
> include the foundry name if that is judged as needed to disambiguate
> the name...or whatever other reason.

I would say that we should name it fonts-<upstream english font name>.
If upstream adds a foundry name to their font name for disambiguation
purposes then I have no issue with using that in the package name.

-- 
bye,
pabs

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