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Re: [Pkg-fonts-devel] RFS: fonts-play



(This was also sent to debian-mentors, the address to p-f-d was erroneous though)

On Thu, 2011-12-15 at 10:44 +0800, Paul Wise wrote:
> There is a precompiled Windows binary in the source package:
> 
> tools/ttfautohint/ttfautohint002.exe
> 
Facepalm! Removed.

> I note a lot of the tools refer to /usr/local/bin/fontforge, that
> should be changed to using env or /usr/bin/fontforge
> 
I've added a patch to fix this.

> I wonder if the tools should be packaged separately since future
> Google fonts might use them too? Maybe Dave has some advice there.
> 
Yes, this is true, and it's on my to-do, I am avoiding it for the first
release however, would I be wrong in doing so?

> fontlint complaints to forward upstream:
> 
> Play-Bold.ttf
> Validation Play-Bold ...Failed
>   Self Intersecting Glyph
> 
> Play-Regular.ttf
> The glyph named mu is mapped to U+00B5.
>   But its name indicates it should be mapped to U+03BC.
> The glyph named Delta is mapped to U+2206.
>   But its name indicates it should be mapped to U+0394.
> Validation Play-Regular ...Failed
>   Self Intersecting Glyph
> 
> Play-Bold.otf
> A point in g is outside the font bounding box data.
> A point in gcircumflex is outside the font bounding box data.
> A point in gbreve is outside the font bounding box data.
> A point in gdotaccent is outside the font bounding box data.
> A point in gcommaaccent is outside the font bounding box data.
> A point in eng is outside the font bounding box data.
> Validation Play-Bold ...Failed
>   Self Intersecting Glyph
>   Bad 'CFF ' table
> 
> Play-Regular.otf
> The glyph named mu is mapped to U+00B5.
>   But its name indicates it should be mapped to U+03BC.
> The glyph named Delta is mapped to U+2206.
>   But its name indicates it should be mapped to U+0394.
> A point in scedilla is outside the font bounding box data.
> A point in perthousand.smcp is outside the font bounding box data.
> Validation Play-Regular ...Failed
>   Self Intersecting Glyph
>   Bad 'CFF ' table
> 
Right, will do.

> Relevant lintian complaints:
> 
> P: fonts-play source: source-contains-prebuilt-windows-binary
> tools/ttfautohint/ttfautohint002.exe
> P: fonts-play source: unversioned-copyright-format-uri
> http://dep.debian.net/deps/dep5
Until the proposed versioned address has been finalised, I consider it
the friendliest compromise. But I may be wrong in this?

> I: fonts-play source: debian-watch-file-is-missing
No good way that I can see to watch a mercurial repo, archives for
download have been suggested upstream, but those would be of the whole
directory and not relevant to looking for new versions of a specific
font anyways.

> P: fonts-play: no-upstream-changelog
Should I be generating this from the revision history?

> P: fonts-play: data.tar.xz-member-without-dpkg-pre-depends
> 
I've fixed this, is there anything more that would need doing for Ubuntu
in this, or is adding the pre-depends enough?

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-- 
Martin Erik Werner <martinerikwerner@gmail.com>

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