[Pkg-fonts-devel] Packaging a font already provided by texlive?

[Boyuan Yang <073plan@gmail.com>]

Hello pkg-fonts-devel developers,

 

I've got a question about packaging a font already provided by one of the texlive packages in Debian system.

 

Fandol fonts [1] provides open source Chinese fonts under GPLv3 license (with fonts exception). It is now provided by "texlive-lang-chinese" package:

 

/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/opentype/public/fandol
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/opentype/public/fandol/FandolBraille-Display.otf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/opentype/public/fandol/FandolBraille-Regular.otf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/opentype/public/fandol/FandolFang-Regular.otf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/opentype/public/fandol/FandolHei-Bold.otf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/opentype/public/fandol/FandolHei-Regular.otf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/opentype/public/fandol/FandolKai-Regular.otf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/opentype/public/fandol/FandolSong-Bold.otf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/opentype/public/fandol/FandolSong-Regular.otf

 

However, these fonts are not only useful for typesetting but also useful if they could be used by system fontconfig. As a result, I want to create and (co-)maintain a package "fonts-fandol" for them.

 

I'm not sure what to do next. I tried to create a pure-symlink package [2] and introduce "texlive-lang-chinese" as a dependency, which works. But I'm not quite sure if Debian will accept such a package.

 

Or should I package a completely new package (and causes file duplication)? Any suggestions?

 

Thanks!

 

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Sincerely,

Boyuan Yang

 

[1] https://www.ctan.org/pkg/fandol

[2] https://anonscm.debian.org/git/collab-maint/fonts-fandol.git

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