[Debian-in-workers] Bug#681298: Bug#681298: Bug#681298: ITP: font-kalapi -- Kalapi Gujarati Unicode font

[Vasudev Kamath]

On 18:51 Sat 14 Jul     , G Karunakar wrote:
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> I am out of touch with font package naming rules.. but wondering why
> have separate font-XXXX , couldn't it go in fonts-gujr-extra ?

When it is upstream what is the meaning of adding it in
fonts-gujr-extra? Basically fonts-gujr-extra is fonts with inactive
upstream but which are still important fonts. We in Debian-IN team
take care of these fonts. But this new font has its own upstream and
its own download point adding it in some other package is not
meaningful and again its easy to maintain them separately.

PS: It took me a while to separate out whole bunch ttf-indic-fonts
into separate packages have a proper copyright and
stuff. ttf-indic-fonts was a *jar of worms* as Chirstian phrases it
;-) and we better not create one more jar of worm :-D

> if there is going to be only  one font in the dir, why not just put it
> in extra dir than each font in its own dir... after installing all
> Indic fonts I have about 20 or more dirs under truetype related to
> indic.

As I said above it should always been in this way from beginning but I
don't know why ttf-indic-fonts was created by mixing all fonts
together during that time.

I understand about multiple directory for even same language fonts but we always have to preserve the
upstream we don't have right to change their package by our self. We
can't steal their identity by putting them in some other packages.

If you are worried about how to get all fonts installing fonts-indic
should get all fonts automatically same for language wise fonts
installing fonts-malayalam installs all Malayalam fonts user don't
need to worry about remembering font names.


> 
> For devanagari there are
> fonts-deva-extra  - 5 fonts
> fonts-nakula, fonts-sahdeva, lohit-devanagari - 1 each.

We made a mistake here fonts-nakula should install font to
truetype/Nakula and same for truetype/Sahadeva as they are the actual
names of fonts same with lohit.
> 
> fonts-knda-extra - 8 (2 sets actually)
> fonts-navilu, Gubbi  (should this not have been fonts-gubbi?) ,
> lohit-kannada - 1 font each.

fonts-navilu goes to Navilu and fonts-gubbi goes to Gubbi that is
their upstream name and same for lohit-kannada

since fonts-xxx-extra was created by we just added them to
fonts-xxx-extra folder.

According to policy fonts- is always prefixed to upstream font name
but in some places we missed to rename the directories. Probably a bug
can help us keep track of these changes

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