[Pkg-fonts-devel] Adding AppStream metainfo files for fonts

[Paul Wise]

On Mon, Sep 26, 2016 at 3:14 AM, Matthias Klumpp wrote:

> In order to properly display fonts, they need to have an AppStream
> metainfo file. Unfortunately, font upstreams do often not provide
> those, especially since many font authors just create the font once
> and then don't invest time in maintaining it.

Can we just have appstream.d.o/debhelper/something autogenerate these?

> You can find the specification for font metainfo files here:
> https://www.freedesktop.org/software/appstream/docs/sect-Metadata-Fonts.html

This appears to be missing font names (as one would use them in
CSS/etc) and language support, how does Fedora do that magical
language to font matching for automatic font installation when
visiting web pages?

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