Tag: ITP Hi,
first, many thanks for the instructions. (for reference: <URL:http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-fonts-devel/2010-July/005293.html>) > Since the freeze is very close you may not make it. > > Retitle the RFP bug to ITP and set yourself as the owner to indicate > that you are working on it > Take a look at one of the pkg-fonts packages that build-depends on > fontforge to find out how to build the font from source and how to > package fonts in general. Please note that for new packages you do not > need any of the defoma stuff that you might see in some of the font > packages. Did not find a fonts package that build-depends on fontforge, but ... (see below) > I note that the font is listed as GPL licensed, I'd recommend asking > upstream to add the standard GPL font exception to the license: > > http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#FontException I looked into the license (OFL ?!) and found: "5) [...] The requirement for fonts to remain under this license does not apply to any document created using the Font Software." So I guess this is fine. > Then get someone from pkg-fonts or DebianEdu to review the package and > upload it. I prepared a draft package at: <URL:http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/debian-edu/people/andi/packages/gruenewald/> To create it, I used the ttf-dzongkha-package source from <URL:http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/pkg-fonts/packages/ttf-dzongkha/trunk/> as a kind of template. I seems to be equally simple and under the same license. There is one issue I am not sure about how to handle it properly: The upstream source is distributed in a .zip file which contains file names with spaces. Up to now I unziped the source, replaced all whitespace characters by "_" and tar'ed the resulting directory to obtain the orig.tar.gz. I put a README.source into debian/ to describe that. So if anybody from debian-edu or pkg-fonts could have a look, that would be great. In the long run it would be nice to use the pkg-fonts svn repository to maintain it. Many thanks so far, tips, tricks and critics welcome. Best regards Andi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
