[Pkg-fonts-devel] Claiming the ownership as part of pkg-fonts

Raphael Hertzog hertzog at debian.org
Wed Aug 7 07:08:54 UTC 2013


On Wed, 07 Aug 2013, Fabian Greffrath wrote:
> Am Dienstag, den 06.08.2013, 19:41 +0530 schrieb Vasudev Kamath: 
> > I will package this fonts as part of pkg-fonts but might need sponsor
> 
> Isn't it possible to use fonts-liberation in their place? I don't see
> why we need yet another set of drop-in replacements for Arial, Times and
> courier in the archive.

For the needs of my specific package, I already said that I double checked
and that in fact I can live without those fonts.

That said those fonts are not exactly the same as fonts-liberation, since
it provides a replacement font for Verdana in place of Courier (but Times
and Arial are overlapping).

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