Re: Orphaned fonts in Debian (ttf-arphic* & ttf-bpg-georgian-fonts)
- To: pkg-fonts-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org, 459903@bugs.debian.org, 503517@bugs.debian.org, 503514@bugs.debian.org, 503513@bugs.debian.org, 503512@bugs.debian.org
- Cc: debian-boot@lists.debian.org, debian-chinese-big5@lists.debian.org, Anthony Fok <foka@debian.org>, Vladimer Sichinava <vlsichinava@gmail.com>, Aiet Kolkhi <aietkolkhi@gmail.com>
- Subject: Re: Orphaned fonts in Debian (ttf-arphic* & ttf-bpg-georgian-fonts)
- From: Arne Goetje <arne@linux.org.tw>
- Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2009 21:21:53 +0800
- Message-id: <49996871.4010707@linux.org.tw>
- In-reply-to: <1234776832.2629.30.camel@chianamo>
- References: <1234776832.2629.30.camel@chianamo>
pabs wrote:
> ttf-arphic-*
>
> These don't appear to be used by the installer. Subscribers of the
> debian-chinese-* lists, could you give any information about if these
> fonts are still useful?
They are useful for printing and AFAIK the current latex-cjk (or was it
cjk-latex?) use those fonts. Further more, the ttf-arphic-{uming|ukai}
fonts are derived from those. So, I guess we should keep them for a while.
> They need a new maintainer, would any of you like to join the Debian
> fonts team and adopt these packages?
I can maintain them (and I am a member of the Debian fonts team).
Cheers
Arne
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