On Tue, Nov 19, 2002 at 07:39:17PM +0200, Anton Zinoviev wrote: > Package: wnpp > Version: N/A; reported 2002-11-19 > Severity: wishlist > > * Package name : xfonts-freefont > Version : 2002.10.11 > Upstream Author : Primoz Peterlin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > * URL : http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/freefont/ > * License : GPL-2 > Description : free scalable fonts > > The new Red Hat 8.0 (which uses UTF-8 thoroughly) uses these fonts as > standard fonts for its environment. I think we have enough time to do > the same before the official release of sarge.
Excellent. Thanks for packaging this.
> I would like to ask if you agree with the name of the package. The
> upstream uses the name "Freefont", but it is possible that this name
> will confuse some of the people who have heard that there is also a
> package named freefont which despite its name is not free.
Hrm, yes, more brain damage imposed on us by Christoph Lameter years
ago.
Policy does not mandate the "xfonts-" prefix, and in fact I suggest only
using that prefix for BDF or PCF fonts, because other font formats are
typically applied in environments other than the X Window System.
(E.g., Type1, Type3, TrueType).
There seems to be a trend to name TrueType font packages "ttf-name",
where name is the name under which the font or bundle of fonts is
typically distributed.
However, checking apt-cache, we see:
ttf-freefont - Freefont Serif, Sans and Mono Truetype fonts
Package: ttf-freefont
Priority: optional
Section: x11
Installed-Size: 2588
Maintainer: Peter Hawkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Architecture: all
Version: 20021016-1
Depends: defoma
Filename: pool/main/t/ttf-freefont/ttf-freefont_20021016-1_all.deb
Size: 1234384
MD5sum: 2aca1694b946ecba91fc1a0029b11aca
Description: Freefont Serif, Sans and Mono Truetype fonts
A set of free high-quality TrueType fonts covering the UCS
character set. These fonts are similar to the (in)famous Helvetica,
Times and Courier fonts.
Is that the same as what you're proposing to ITP? If so, then you
should withdraw your ITP. If the current maintainer is not actively
maintaining the package, you may want to offer to adopt it.
If this is not the same package, then you will unfortunately need to
find a new name.
> I intend to use this as a description of the package:
>
> This package installs a set of free scalable fonts. The set consists
> of three typefaces: one monospaced and two proportional (one with
> uniform and one with modulated stroke).
I'm not sure what you mean by "uniform" and "modulated stroke". Do you
mean "serif" and "sans serif"?
> These fonts support a large set of scripts and glyphs: Arabic,
> Armenian, Bengali, Cyrillic, Devanagari, Ethiopic, Greek, Gujarati,
> Gurmukhi, Hebrew, Latin, Malayalam, Oriya, Tamil, Telugu, Thaana and
> Thai scripts, as well as some mathematical operators, dingbaths,
> currency symbols, arrows and some other symbols.
The above is good stuff. It may help our non-ISO-8859-{1,2,15,16} users
who do keyword searches of package descriptions.
> These fonts should be standard for any GNU operating system which
> claims to support Unicode. They also aim to stop switching of the
> free software users from the free X11 bitmapped fonts to the
> proprietary fonts of one well known software corporation.
> .
> This Debian package includes TrueType versions of the fonts.
I find these two paragraphs superfluous. The first is too preachy, and
the second is redundant except for the font format, which should be
mentioned in the short description instead.
I hope this message helps.
--
G. Branden Robinson | Intellectual property is neither
Debian GNU/Linux | intellectual nor property.
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