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Re: [Pkg-fonts-devel] Bug#597441: ITP: amiri -- Naskh style, typographically oriented font, mainly for printing and running text.



Salam,

Quoting أحمد المحمودي (aelmahmoudy@sabily.org):
> Package: wnpp
> Severity: wishlist
> Owner: "أحمد المحمودي" <aelmahmoudy@sabily.org>
> 
> 
> * Package name    : amiri
>   Version         : 0.001
>   Upstream Author : Khaled Hosny <khaledhosny@eglug.org>
> * URL             : http://naskh.sf.net
> * License         : OFL
>   Programming Lang: N/A
>   Description     : Naskh style, typographically oriented font, mainly for printing and running text


Could you reconsider the naming of the font?

The current practice for packages providinf TrueType and/or OpenType
fonts is naming them ttf-<foundry>-<font>. The "ttf-" prefix is very
widely used while the <foundry>-<font> is not as widely used....

Some people proposed we use a "font-" or "fonts-" prefix (used in
Fedora) to avoid naming "ttf-foo" something that provides OTF fonts.

We could probably start with your package as it is obviously intended
for wheezy and not squeeze.

That would lead to something like "font-hosny-amiri" by using the
upstream author's first name as "foundry" name.


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