Re: [Pkg-fonts-devel] FontForge Packaging

[Frank Trampe <frank.trampe@gmail.com>]

Hi, Fabian.

I'm indeed working on upstream FontForge.

The current plan is not to include a static debian directory in the source root (as has happened in the past) so as to make things easier for others packaging the product differently. I'm adding a deb-src make target that generates the debian control directory and runs debuild.

On Mon, Aug 4, 2014 at 2:41 AM, Fabian Greffrath <fabian@greffrath.com> wrote:

Dear Frank,

Am Dienstag, den 29.07.2014, 18:14 -0500 schrieb Frank Trampe:

> I'm working to add automatic packaging functionality to FontForge in
> support of what we hope to be frequent releases in a dedicated package
> repository (to be created soon). It seems that it would save me a lot
> of work and do a lot to maintain compatibility if I were to borrow
> most of the metadata from the existing Debian packaging overlay. Does
> this seem to be a reasonable approach?

I am not sure if I understand your approach correctly.

1) Are you upstream for fontforge?
2) Are you telling that you are going to add a debian/ subdirectory to
fontforge release tarballs?

Cheers,

Fabian