Hi Lev, Lev Lamberov <dogsleg@debian.org> writes: > Ср 20 мая 2020 @ 19:39 Nicholas D Steeves <nsteeves@gmail.com>: >>> all-the-icons.el: >>> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=893983 >>> https://salsa.debian.org/Valdaer/all-the-icons.el >>> https://mentors.debian.net/package/all-the-icons-el >>> >> >> I do not believe this one meets our high standards, which is why I gave >> up on the ITP. Namely, I investigated the standards of the Font Team, >> saw how they were generating fonts, saw this was not possible with >> all-the-icons.el. I believe I also filed some bugs and/or attempted to >> contact our Font Team, but sadly never received a reply. At any rate, >> while I think font icons are a cool hack, others have expressed strong >> opinions about how font icons are an abomination that should DIAF. >> >> Supposing we did go ahead with uploading this, my concerns are: 1) >> trademarked images that are removed from the font-foo packages for DFSG >> reasons. 2) Conflicts with the system-wide font-foo packages and >> associated bug potential. >> >> I just noticed I never provided my rationale to #893983, so I'm doing >> that now. > > Probably one could use fonts from the Debian archive. That is, > symlinking them, or changing relevant ELisp code, no? At least font > Awesome is already packaged as fonts-font-awesome. Guess in case some of > the fonts are not packaged yet, one should package them separately > first. > Yes, I think you're right, so long as all-the-icons doesn't require custom propertised fonts. Maybe my analysis was wrong, but I thought that it required this... Cheers, Nicholas
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