Re: sponsor wanted - ec-fonts-mftraced (lilypond's fonts)

[Frank Küster <frank@debian.org>]

Pedro Kroger <kroegerlistas@pedrokroeger.net> wrote:

> I'd to have a sponsor for the package ec-fonts-mftraced. The new version
> of lilypond (2.4) depends on it. Without this package the new and much
> improved version of lilypond will not be usable in debian.
[...]
> and the package files are here:
>
> http://www.pedrokroeger.net/lilypond/ec-fonts/

Some comments on the package:

- it is packaged as Debian native, but shouldn't be.

- The source contains CVS directories. Please bug upstream to remove
  them from the orig.tar.gz.

- debian/copyright: You might have to include the license of the
  original fonts, too. In any case, you should ask on debian-legal
  whether the original license does allow derived works in the form of
  traced fonts at all.

- the README file seems not very useful to me - just a combination of
  the package description and the copyright file.

- is it on purpose that you do not register the fonts to TeX
  (update-updmap; updmap)?

- You should redirect stderr in postrm. People will be confused and
  write bug reports if they get a "bash: mktexlsr: command not found"
  upon deinstallation.

- The package is Architecture: all, but you do the main work in
  binary-arch in debian/rules.

- You have many commented lines in debian/rules, usually it is adviced
  to remove them. Moreover, you have lines that don't seem to be useful:
  dh_installman, dh_strip, dh_link, dh_shlibdeps

Regards, Frank
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Frank Küster
Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer