[Pkg-fonts-devel] Bug#801787: ITP: fonts-pt-sans - Public Types of Russian Federation - sans serif

[Jonas Smedegaard]

Quoting Daniel Glassey (2015-10-22 00:11:38)
> On Wed, Oct 14, 2015 at 05:13:21PM +0200, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
>> * Package name    : fonts-pt-sans
[...]
> This looks like a similar ITP to #787898.

Oh, indeed.  Sorry for not checking properly before filing.

@Relli054w: If perhaps you are interested in maintaining this as a 
teamwork - and don't mind my packaging style which involves CDBS and 
git-buildpackage - then I'd be happy to work together with you. If you 
prefer to work alone or want to team up with someone using a different 
packaging style, then you came first and I will step down and wish you 
good luck on the work.


> It would be good to have the Serif and Mono fonts as well, and the 
> webfonts (but they can wait)
>
> I think the idea of that ITP was to have a single source package 
> containing all the fonts. Personally I prefer a separate source 
> package for each downloaded zip.

I agree with above - for Beaker only the sans family is needed that's 
why I filed that (as I'd track each upstream zip as a separate source 
package), but I would be happy to collaborate on all the PT families, 
and extended hinting for web as well.


> I'll also suggest naming the packages fonts-paratype-ptsans etc since 
> ParaType has created them.

I disagree with that: Seems to me the common naming practice in Debian 
is fonts-<fontname> rather than fonts-<foundry>-<fontname>, and the 
former naming makes sense to me: Eventual packages from different 
vendors with same fontname would cause problems in Debian so should be 
avoided if at all possible.  Also when families are packaged separately 
they commonly are separated from fontname with a dash in Debian package 
name.


> I'd be happy to help.

Great!

I will be using CDBS and git-buildpackage for the package, similar to 
how fonts-noto is done.  Is that fine with you?  If not, would you 
perhaps be interested in teaming up with others and maintain it without 
me in the loop?


 - Jonas

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