[Pkg-fonts-devel] RFC: t1-urw-garamondno8 fonts for TeX and X

Rogério Brito rbrito at ime.usp.br
Wed Aug 19 19:41:18 UTC 2009


Dear Norbert,

On Aug 19 2009, Norbert Preining wrote:
> Hi Rogérito,
> 
> On Wed, 19 Aug 2009, Norbert Preining wrote:
> > > dget http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/non-free/t/t1-urw-garamondno8/t1-urw-garamondno8_0.0.20050707-3.dsc
> 
> From the TeX side it looks fine.

Thank you very much for taking a look at the sources.

I will prune some things from the final binary package (say, things for
vtex, which don't need to be installed---and, of course, keep the
package tidy and to save some disk space).

Oh, is it clear (now that you took a chance to look at the package) why
it should be targeted at non-free?

Talking a bit more about the Debian packaging, I think that I will
rewrite the copyright file that Kevin wrote (and which I minorly
edited), so that it is more readable.

Oh, since you are talking about the TeX side, what about the dependency
of tex-common? Should I keep the >= 0.16 (to get proper triggers
support), should I remove the versioned dependency, bump the version
even more etc?

> From the Fonts side I am not sure if we (as Debian) are still following
> defoma. It seems to me -- or better I heard that advise -- to only
> install fontconfig .conf files and that should be enough/better.

Thanks for letting me know about that. I really apreciate your guidance
on getting this in shape.

> lintian reports out-of-date standards version (3.8.2 <-> 3.8.3) and
> that defoma is called with path, but that is a bug in
> dh_installdefoma.

Yes, I didn't upgrade yet, because I have to study the changes in 3.8.3
(just reading the upgrading checklist wasn't enough for some packages of
mine).

> And you might add
>         DM-Upload-Allowed: yes
> to debian/control so that you can upload yourself after an initial upload
> of someone else!

Oh, sure. Not having to bother other people with some updates is indeed
a good thing.


Thank you very much for your warm feedback, Rogério Brito.

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