Re: [Pkg-fonts-devel] Cantarel font
Am 07.03.2011 16:20, schrieb Nicolas Spalinger:
My point was to recommend pinging them and asking to make their build
system usable by packagers instead of us forking it or grafting
something else on top (even from a different project) they may not use
themselves, which really boils down to maintaining the delta which is
non-trivial.
I have asked upstream to provide a rule to rebuild the font files,
see: <https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=644126>
Well, apart from gently and respectfully nudging the authors and
maintainers, maybe sending patches so that the font source tree comes
closer to the general community recommendation of our
foo-open-font-sources VCS template?
Sorry, I am really unable to follow you on this... :/
Considering that the copyright of the work is assigned to a company and
not GNOME as a non-profit, I'm not sure how GNOME could be the
foundry... Also there are some discrepancies with a foundry name
which is different than the company name in the metadata of the various
source files.
I guess it's good to ask upstream to clarify and be consistent before we
package.
David Crossland (the original author) has just posted to this list
that he thinks the proposed package name sounds like a good idea. ;)
The Fedora binary package currently picks up only the .otf files.
I think we should do the same given the scope of that particular open font.
Alright, this would also incidently solve the issue of re-inventing
upstream's build system to rebuild the fonts. ;)
Thanks,
- Fabian
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