Hi Erdal, On Tue, Apr 08, 2008 at 01:03:47PM +0200, Erdal Ronahi wrote: > Hi Davide, hi Nicholas, > > I am the head of the Kurdish l10n group for free software. Ben Laenen was so > kind to give me your emails. I am asking for help with packaging and > distributing a font for Linux. > > The "Unikurd Web" font is practically the default for websites in Kurdish with > Arabic letters as used in Iraq and Iran. It was the first font to implement the > Unicode standards for Kurdish and has been widely distributed as freeware so > far. > > Now the author agreed to publish it under the GPL together with the sources to > ensure even wider distribution together with Linux distributions. What we are > not familiar with is how to package this font and get major distributions like > Debian or Fedora to accept it into their repositories. Should we file a bug for > that, if so where, or can you two help us directly? a large number of fonts within Debian are team-maintained by the "Debian Fonts Task Force" [1] and the people involved with this project are reachable via this (CC'ing this message to it): pkg-fonts-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org You can take a look at the current packages directly in the svn repository [2] The above links might be a good start; once you have more questions just don't hesitate to ask! regards, Davide [1] http://pkg-fonts.alioth.debian.org/ [2] svn://anonymous@svn.debian.org/svn/pkg-fonts/packages
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