Re: [Pkg-fonts-devel] Where is the Font Renaming Policy?
- To: Christian PERRIER <bubulle@debian.org>, a.starr.b@gmail.com
- Cc: pkg-fonts-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org
- Subject: Re: [Pkg-fonts-devel] Where is the Font Renaming Policy?
- From: Rogério Brito <rbrito@ime.usp.br>
- Date: Tue, 6 Dec 2011 19:04:05 -0200
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Hi there.
On Oct 26 2011, Christian PERRIER wrote:
> Quoting Andrew Starr-Bochicchio (a.starr.b@gmail.com):
> > Honestly, I'm not personally interested in contributing to a comprehensive
> > rfc2119 style policy statement. But I do think there is a real need for
> > something public facing beyond what already exists. To that end, I've drafted
> > an update to http://wiki.debian.org/Fonts/PackagingPolicy I've kept it at
> > http://wiki.debian.org/Andrewsomething/Fonts/PackagingPolicy for now.
> >
> > If there are no objections, I will replace the current Fonts/PackagingPolicy
> > wiki page. Feel free to suggest changes or edit it directly (it is a wiki =)).
>
> I think it's OK to put that document in place. Thanks a lot for this
> work that was long awaiting.
That's really great to have others building up things on top of what I
drafted.
I think that I will be converting that to some docbook-style thing, so that
we can have a document that can be neatly put into the web, say, like the
Debian Policy, the TeX Policy or the Python Policies (e.g.,
http://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/python-policy/).
If maintaining the document in the team's SVN repository, then that's OK
with me (I'm just so much more familiar with git than with SVN and will be
probably using a gateway between SVN and git).
Patches on top of what I have on github [*] are welcome, so that we can
preserve history and the contributions of everybody. If you find something
scattered on other places/emails, please drop me an email.
[*]: https://github.com/rbrito/fonts-policy
> About the location of files: I, myself, adopted the policy of moving
> the files to /usr/share/fonts/fonttype/name instead of
> /usr/share/fonts/fonttype/fonts-<foundry>-name
Sure, that's a stupid thing that was put there while we were "morphing"
stuff to a more sensible standard.
> So, the Liberation fonts go to /usr/share/fonts/truetype/liberation
>
> It avoids cluttering /usr/share/fonts/truetype with dozens of
> "fonts-foo" directories, imho.
Exactly.
Regards,
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