Bug#169772: ITP: xfonts-freefont -- free scalable fonts

[Anton Zinoviev <zinoviev@debian.org>]

Package: wnpp
Version: N/A; reported 2002-11-19
Severity: wishlist

* Package name    : xfonts-freefont
  Version         : 2002.10.11
  Upstream Author : Primoz Peterlin <primoz.peterlin@biofiz.mf.uni-lj.si>
* URL             : http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/freefont/
* License         : GPL-2
  Description     : free scalable fonts

The new Red Hat 8.0 (which uses UTF-8 thoroughly) uses these fonts as
standard fonts for its environment.  I think we have enough time to do
the same before the official release of sarge.

I would like to ask if you agree with the name of the package.  The
upstream uses the name "Freefont", but it is possible that this name
will confuse some of the people who have heard that there is also a
package named freefont which despite its name is not free.

I intend to use this as a description of the package:

 This package installs a set of free scalable fonts.  The set consists
 of three typefaces: one monospaced and two proportional (one with
 uniform and one with modulated stroke).
 .
 These fonts support a large set of scripts and glyphs: Arabic,
 Armenian, Bengali, Cyrillic, Devanagari, Ethiopic, Greek, Gujarati,
 Gurmukhi, Hebrew, Latin, Malayalam, Oriya, Tamil, Telugu, Thaana and
 Thai scripts, as well as some mathematical operators, dingbaths,
 currency symbols, arrows and some other symbols.
 .
 These fonts should be standard for any GNU operating system which
 claims to support Unicode.  They also aim to stop switching of the
 free software users from the free X11 bitmapped fonts to the
 proprietary fonts of one well known software corporation.
 .
 This Debian package includes TrueType versions of the fonts.

Anton Zinoviev