[Pkg-fonts-devel] First item to the packaging policy: how to names packages?

Ming Hua minghua-list at sbcglobal.net
Sun Mar 19 07:35:18 UTC 2006


On Fri, Mar 17, 2006 at 07:12:45AM +0100, Adrian von Bidder wrote:
> On Thursday 16 March 2006 18:20, Christian Perrier wrote:
> 
> [Dzongkha, Bhutan's language]
> 
> > Here the translator mentions me that the team is working on GPL fonts,
> > one of which already existing and named Jomolhari
> 
> An idea out of the blue, without looking at existing packages:
> 
> Package: ttf-jomolhari
> Provides: ttf-lang-dzongkha, ttf-charset-latin
> 
> (Assuming the font also contains basic latin.)

I like the idea of ttf-lang-* virtual package as well, because for the
input methods packages I maintain, I always want to Depend/Recommend a
font package that has Chinese/Japanese/whatever language, but I don't
care which one, any one will do.

Ming
2006.03.19



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