[Debian-in-workers] RFS: fonts-monlam

[Krishnan. N]

Hi,

>
> 1. Maintainer should Debian India team and you should be marked as
>    uploader.

Field Maintainer changed to "Debian-IN Team 
debian-in-workers at lists.alioth.debian.org"
Uploaders field added


> 2. There is a blank line in control file after Build-Depends: field

Removed.

> 3. copyright file says License as GPL that is ambiguous but license text
>    reads it as GPL-3+ so please be specific on license

The license in the copyright file read GNU-GPL-3

> 4. Homepage in control file and Source in copyright points to 2
>    different URL, please clarify

Ideally, the fonts should have been reachable from here: 
http://sambhota.org/sambhota-tibetan-unicode-fonts/, but the links are 
broken, so we've pointed to the links that actually work.

Have now changed the links to point to one URI; will work with the 
Sambhota Org to make the links workable again.


> 5. Source URL in copyright file does not respond, please provide a
>    working URL here.

Will have this working soon.


> 6. There is no license information in the source nor in the ttf file
>    it just says copyright information so how can we confirm that this is
>    indeed GPL-3+?..

We have email confirmation that the fonts can be freely distributed. 
Will have the GPL license up on the page sometime soon.

Dear Krinhnan,
I have attached the Tibetan TsugRing font for your kind information.

With regards,

Lobsang Gonpo (Mr.)

On Sat, Aug 27, 2016 at 3:46 PM, Krishnan N <krishnan.n at gai.co.in> wrote:

     Dear sir/Madam,

     We are in the process of creating Tibetan language font and 
keyboard packages for Debian Linux. We are trying to add all possible 
fonts to the repository. We have already added The YigChung font, but 
cannot find the TsugRing font in your website. Would be grateful if you 
could email the font to us.

     We will also be happy to visit you in the School to collect the 
same and also discuss our work, if you like. Please feel free to call 
+91 9816 184 553 or email. Thank you very much for your time.

     Thanks & regards,
     krishnan



> 7. If source is indeed GPL what is the prefered format of editing the
>    font by upstream?. i.e. how font is generated by upstream?. Is the
>    source of font available?. We would prefer to build font from the
>    source unless ttf is the prefered format used by upstream to modify
>    fonts (I highly doubt it though).
>

These fonts are quite old and we could not reach anyone who has the 
original sources. Think we have to make to with the existing .ttf 
font-files. Will this work?

> 8. If the source from step 7 can not be built from tools in Debian main
>    then font should go to contrib not main.
>

You will need to elaborate what i/we need to do here? I'm new to Debian 
packaging.

> Please clarify all these points before it can be uploaded to Debian
> archive.
>

   Thanks for the detailed review. AFAIK, cleared up all the points , 
checked back with linter and package appears to work fine. Have pushed 
to debian-in git. Please let me know if i've missed anything important.

Thanks & regards,
krishnan

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