[Pkg-fonts-devel] Adopting ttf-radisnoir

Fabian Greffrath fabian at debian.org
Mon Nov 16 08:36:15 UTC 2015


Am Freitag, den 13.11.2015, 23:46 +0100 schrieb Gioele Barabucci:
> I have a doubt. The source contains both a TTF and a OTF file.
> Currently 
> both are installed. Does it make sense?

In general, I'd say "no". Except, maybe, for some heavily used packages
like fonts-freefont-* which have many reverse-dependencies, which in
turn rely on hard-coded paths to certain font files and are dependent
on them being in one specific format or the other. I doubt, though,
that this is the case for ttf-radisnoir. However, please check its
reverse-dependencies, if any.

Furthermore, the package name being prefixed with "ttf-" is very
misleading for his package. In general, please adapt packages to the
team's usual schema of prefixing packages with "fonts-". This does also
apply to the femkeklaver package that I just reviewed some minutes ago,
sorry for this oversight:

Please turn ttf-* packages into transitional package depending on the
fonts-* pendants and providing symlinks to the fonts' previous
locations.

> As always. I have not generated the changelog yet and I've left the 
> package marked as UNRELEASED.

I am still not convinced by debian/.gitignore, but this is merely a
personal preference. Apart from this, it looks fine. However, please
note that I am not going to upload any more font packages starting with
ttf-*.

Thanks,

Fabian
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