[Pkg-fonts-devel] fonts-noto_2013-04-11-1_amd64.changes ACCEPTED into unstable, unstable

Paul Wise pabs at debian.org
Thu Feb 6 01:02:01 UTC 2014


On Wed, Feb 5, 2014 at 11:20 PM, Vasudev Kamath wrote:

> Probably we need to document this if its mandatory. I actually follow
> using upstream name under /u/s/truetype/ and have this in multiple font
> packages of mine (and I'm also co-maintainer of noto fonts)
>
> If this is a policy we should also consider creating lintian rule.
>
> PS: If I'm overlooking some Debian policy correct me :).

Packages relying on fonts should use fontconfig at runtime to lookup
their location. Any packages that don't need to be fixed.
Unfortunately we don't have any way to detect this stuff right now.

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pabs

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