On Wed 2023-01-25 17:05:53 +0100, Bastian Germann wrote: > On Wed, 4 Nov 2020 17:04:48 -0700 Bobby de Vos wrote: >> Package: wnpp >> Version N/A; reported 2020-11-04 >> Severity: wishlist >> >> Greetings, >> >> My team at SIL-WSTech is about to released a font not in Debian, >> Scheherazade New, that I would like to package for Debian. >> >> Package name : fonts-sil scheherazadenew >> Version : 3.000 >> Upstream Author : SIL WSTech <fo...@sil.org> >> URL : https://software.sil.org/scheherazade/ >> License : OFL-1.1 >> Section : fonts >> Description : Arabic script font designed in the traditional Naskh style > > I do not see the source files for this font being released. > Please read at https://wiki.debian.org/Fonts#Source_Font_Formats what is > considered a font source format in Debian. > > So this has to go to non-free even if the binary fonts are freely licensed.
It looks to me like there are UFO sources at https://github.com/silnrsi/font-scheherazade, which could potentially be built with fontforge. I don't fully understand the tooling needed to produce the expected font files, but i think pysilfont (not currently packaged for debian, but MIT-licensed, see https://bugs.debian.org/1032272) is likely needed for some of the "preflight" steps and normalization. I don't think Scheherazade New needs to go into non-free, and i would very much like to have it available in debian main. We just need to be able to build it from source. fwiw, i recommend naming the package (source and binary) "fonts-scheherazade-new" -- the current practice in debian is to not include the foundry name in the font package name. --dkg
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