[Pkg-fonts-devel] Packaging a font for Linux

Davide Viti zinosat at tiscali.it
Tue Apr 8 11:41:41 UTC 2008


Hi Erdal,

On Tue, Apr 08, 2008 at 01:03:47PM +0200, Erdal Ronahi wrote:
> Hi Davide, hi Nicholas,
> 
> I am the head of the Kurdish l10n group for free software. Ben Laenen was so
> kind to give me your emails. I am asking for help with packaging and
> distributing a font for Linux.
> 
> The "Unikurd Web" font is practically the default for websites in Kurdish with
> Arabic letters as used in Iraq and Iran. It was the first font to implement the
> Unicode standards for Kurdish and has been widely distributed as freeware so
> far.
> 
> Now the author agreed to publish it under the GPL together with the sources to
> ensure even wider distribution together with Linux distributions. What we are
> not familiar with is how to package this font and get major distributions like
> Debian or Fedora to accept it into their repositories. Should we file a bug for
> that, if so where, or can you two help us directly?

a large number of fonts within Debian are team-maintained by the
"Debian Fonts Task Force" [1] and the people involved with this
project are reachable via this (CC'ing this message to it):

pkg-fonts-devel at lists.alioth.debian.org

You can take a look at the current packages directly in the svn
repository [2]

The above links might be a good start; once you have more questions
just don't hesitate to ask!

regards,
Davide

[1] http://pkg-fonts.alioth.debian.org/
[2] svn://anonymous@svn.debian.org/svn/pkg-fonts/packages
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