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Re: First time font packager questions



Hi,

在 2024-02-13星期二的 15:09 -0700,Soren Stoutner写道:
> I would like to package the Adobe Source Sans 3 fonts and maintain them going forward.
> 
> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=683774
> 
> The upstream source is at:
> 
> https://github.com/adobe-fonts/source-sans/tree/main
> 
> My interest is mostly because one of these fonts is used by the Electrum package, which I maintain.
> 
> In doing so, I would like to join the Debian fonts team.  My Salsa username is soren.
> 
> I have read over the information at:
> 
> https://wiki.debian.org/Fonts/PackagingPolicy
> https://github.com/rbrito/fonts-policy/blob/master/fonts_policy.mdwn
> 
> This font builds using the Adobe Font Development Kit for OpenType (AFDKO), which I haven’t yet spent any time digging into. If anyone has any experience with it or has any
> pointers that might not be obvious to me I would appreciate the guidance.
> 
> In terms of naming of the source package, the following are three possibilities:
> 
> fonts-adobe-sourcesans3
> fonts-adobe-source-sans3
> fonts-adobe-source-sans-3
> 
> Does anyone have any strong opinion as to which would be best?


Welcome down to the rabbit hole. I believe the AFDKO issue is likely the
most important one. As far as I can tell it is blocked by
https://lists.debian.org/debian-fonts/2021/07/msg00009.html , after which
no progress was made. If you could help, that would be really helpful and
unblock the packaging of a vast amount of different fonts.

Thanks,
Boyuan Yang

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