[Pkg-fonts-devel] [Pkg-fonts-commits] r634 - in packages/ttf-oldstandard/trunk/debian: . bug

[Nicolas Spalinger]

Christian Perrier wrote:
> Quoting Nicolas Spalinger (nicolas_spalinger at sil.org):
> 
>> And yes, I'm probably not going to stay with cdbs. (Pantelis' package 
>> was originally cdbs-based).
> 
> 
> ...which is why I'm laughing. 

Alright, looks like I rather misunderstood what you were laughing about 
there :(

(IIRC on Debian Planet I saw that some DDs did not like such an 
approach, so I thought that you were referring to that...)

> cdbs makes the creation of simple
> packages (and font packages are simple ones, most of the time) much
> easier and straightforward. It also allows complying with most of the
> good practices without changes to each single package.
> 
> So, as long as cdbs is well maintained, I see no reason to not use it
> in simple packages. But, well, that's your call if you prefer handling
> each debian/rules line manually....

Yes it makes sense, but my general feeling (I may well be wrong!) was 
that, at this stage, cdbs is abstracting away things too much and taking 
time to dive into all the other makefiles to know how to control things 
was too time-consuming...  I thought that the current makefiles were 
really ideal for the specific "building-from-fontforge-sources approach" 
that is needed for packages like ttf-old-standard.

I guess we should contribute a font-building-specific makefile for cdbs 
sometime in the future... In the meantime the package builds from the 
.sfd sources with a simplified python fontforge script.


Cheers,

-- 
Nicolas Spalinger
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