Bug#590971: adonthell-data: contains non-free font

[Moritz Muehlenhoff]

On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 12:31:22PM -0400, Paul Wise wrote:
> Package: adonthell-data
> Version: 0.3.4.cvs.20080529-1
> Severity: serious
> User: pkg-fonts-devel at lists.alioth.debian.org
> Usertags: non-free
> X-Debbugs-CC: pkg-fonts-devel at lists.alioth.debian.org
> 
> Your package contains a non-free font:
> 
> /usr/share/games/adonthell/games/wastesedge/gfx/window/font/avatar.ttf
> http://pkg-fonts.alioth.debian.org/review/fnt-889b1eb3a2c9ff7e9d30565b80e5d84c.html
> 
> This looks to be from here:
> 
> http://www.abstractfonts.com/font/1992
> http://www.abstractfonts.com/download/1992
> http://ultima.gogab.com/
> http://ultima.gogab.com/avtrfont.zip
> 
> Fedora discovered that this font is non-free and removed it:
> 
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=477481
> 
> Please remove the font from the binary package and the source package
> and depend on another font package or move the package to non-free.
> 
> Please contact your upstream and ask them to use fontconfig or similar
> to get fonts for use by the software instead of using a specific font.
> 
> This message is brought to you by the Debian Fonts Task Force:
> 
> http://wiki.debian.org/Fonts

I'll look into replacing the font or tracking down the author of
the font for clarification.

Cheers,
        Moritz