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Bug#971830: fonts-jetbrains-mono: please advertise which scripts are covered



Quoting Romain Porte (2020-11-19 18:07:15)
> 2020-11-19 00:43 CET, Jonas Smedegaard:
> > I sure hope you had fun diving into this - and that I did not 
> > mislead you when suggesting to explore this.
> 
> I�sure did, it allowed me to learn how the substitution system and 
> dh_gencontrol work. It is just the result that I find disappointing in 
> the end.
> 
> > There must be code out there to automate the task of inspecting 
> > language coverage, but I have not yet found anything useful to 
> > package for Debian.  That would be nice, and I would certainly use 
> > it for package description of Noto fonts.
> 
> Would you not be concerned about introducing 145 lines listing the 
> languages in the long description? I think "long" should be "long 
> enough", not "exhaustive".
> 
> > >   List of supported scripts:
> > >    - Default
> > >    - Latin
> > >    - Latin/Azeri
> > >    - Latin/Catalan
> > >    - Latin/Crimean
> > >    - Latin/Kazakh
> > >    - Latin/Moldavian
> > >    - Latin/Romanian
> > >    - Latin/Tatar
> > >    - Latin/Turkish
> 
> Is this addition in the package's long decription worthwhile to you, 
> and if so, should I merge the proposed patch?
> 
> I see in the noto fonts package that the long description contains:
> 
> > The name "Noto" is short for "No Tofu",
> > describing the aim of covering all living Unicode scripts
> > (currently 65 are covered, at least partly.
> 
> Which is different from what I came with. I would be *happier* to 
> follow what noto currently does by piping in a `| wc -l` to mention 
> "<N> scripts covered" instead of "list of supported scripts".
> 
> Do you agree with this approach? Or do you want to take my patch and 
> apply it to the noto fonts instead aswell? ;)

I would indeed not use raw listings of more than 50 entries, but would 
try find ways to summarize the information most sensibly.

With current tools, I do find it most sensible to do as I did for the 
Noto font families.  I am no authority here, but if you agree then sure, 
I do encourage you to try mimick that same style for jetbrains font.

What I mean by stating that I would "certainly use" more accurate 
language coverage analysis tools is that they could help replace that 
annoying trailing "at least partly" remark with more accurate facts.


 - Jonas

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