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Re: First time font packager questions



在 2024-02-21星期三的 11:34 -0700,Soren Stoutner写道:
> I would like to maintain the Source Sans 3 package at:
> 
> salsa.debian.org/fonts-team/fonts-adobe-sourcesans3
> 
> Can someone either add me to the Debian Fonts Task Force or create the repository and give me access?
> 
> My Salsa username is soren.

Done for the repo-level permission. You will need to contact fonts-team group owners to
join salsa.debian.org/fonts-team/ if you would like.

I don't have a strong opinion on the repo naming. Even if we need to rename it,
we can always move the repo later.

Thanks,
Boyuan

> On Tuesday, February 13, 2024 3:09:54 PM MST Soren Stoutner wrote:
> > I would like to package the Adobe Source Sans 3 fonts and maintain them going
> > forward.
> > 
> > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=683774[1]
> > 
> > The upstream source is at:
> > 
> > https://github.com/adobe-fonts/source-sans/tree/main[2]
> > 
> > My interest is mostly because one of these fonts is used by the Electrum
> > package, which I maintain.
> > 
> > In doing so, I would like to join the Debian fonts team.  My Salsa username is
> > soren.
> > 
> > I have read over the information at:
> > 
> > https://wiki.debian.org/Fonts/PackagingPolicy[3]
> > https://github.com/rbrito/fonts-policy/blob/master/fonts_policy.mdwn[4]
> > 
> > This font builds using the Adobe Font Development Kit for OpenType (AFDKO),
> > which I haven’t yet spent any time digging into. If anyone has any experience
> > with it or has any pointers that might not be obvious to me I would
> > appreciate the guidance.
> > 
> > In terms of naming of the source package, the following are three
> > possibilities:
> > 
> > fonts-adobe-sourcesans3
> > fonts-adobe-source-sans3
> > fonts-adobe-source-sans-3
> > 
> > Does anyone have any strong opinion as to which would be best?
> 
> 
> -- 
> Soren Stoutner
> soren@debian.org

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