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On Fri, 18 May 2018 10:57:41 +0630 kokoye2007 <kokoye2007@gmail.com> wrote:
> Package: sponsorship-requests
> Severity: wishlist
>
> Dear Maintainer, Developer and Contributor
>
> I am looking for a sponsor for my package "fonts-myanmar"
>
> * Package name : fonts-myanmar
> Version : 1.0-1
> Upstream Author : kokoye2007 <kokoye2007@gmail.com>
> * URL : https://salsa.debian.org/kokoye2007-guest/font-myanmar
> * License : gpl2
> Section : fonts
>
> It builds those binary packages:
>
> fonts-myanmar - ttf myanmar fonts:
> fonts-myanmar-angoun - myanmar fonts: angoun;
> fonts-myanmar-ayar - ttf myanmar fonts: ayar;
> fonts-myanmar-chatu - myanmar fonts: chatu;
> fonts-myanmar-chatulight - myanmar fonts: chatulight;
> fonts-myanmar-gantgaw - myanmar fonts: gantgaw;
> fonts-myanmar-khyay - myanmar fonts: khyay;
> fonts-myanmar-kuttar - myanmar fonts: kuttar;
> fonts-myanmar-mon - myanmar fonts: MON3 Anonta 1 ;
> fonts-myanmar-myanmar3 - ttf myanmar fonts: Myanmar3;
> fonts-myanmar-myanmarcensus - ttf myanmar fonts: MyanmarCensus;
> fonts-myanmar-myanmarsanspro - myanmar fonts: Myanmar Sans Pro;
> fonts-myanmar-namkhome - myanmar fonts: Namkhone;
> fonts-myanmar-nayone - myanmar fonts: nayone;
> fonts-myanmar-njaun - myanmar fonts: njaun;
> fonts-myanmar-pauklay - myanmar fonts: pauklay;
> fonts-myanmar-phetsot - myanmar fonts: phetsot;
> fonts-myanmar-phiksel - myanmar fonts: phiksel;
> fonts-myanmar-phikselsmooth - myanmar fonts: phikselsmooth;
> fonts-myanmar-ponenyet - myanmar fonts: ponenyet;
> fonts-myanmar-pyidaungsu - ttf myanmar fonts: Pyidaungsu;
> fonts-myanmar-sabae - myanmar fonts: sabae;
> fonts-myanmar-sagar - myanmar fonts: sagar;
> fonts-myanmar-sanpya - myanmar fonts: sanpya;
> fonts-myanmar-squarelight - myanmar fonts: squarelight;
> fonts-myanmar-tagu - myanmar fonts: tagu;
> fonts-myanmar-thuriya - myanmar fonts: thuriya;
> fonts-myanmar-unicode - ttf myanmar unicode fonts
> fonts-myanmar-waso - myanmar fonts: waso;
> fonts-myanmar-yinmar - myanmar fonts: yinmar;
> fonts-myanmar-zawgyi - ttf myanmar fonts: ZawgyiOne2008;
>
> To access further information about this package, please visit the
following URL:
>
> https://mentors.debian.net/package/fonts-myanmar
>
>
> Alternatively, one can download the package with dget using this command:
>
> dget -x https://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/f/fonts-myanmar/
fonts-myanmar_1.0-1.dsc
>
> more info or old launchpad ppa at
> launchpad.net/ttf-myanmar-fonts
> https://code.launchpad.net/~kokoye2007/ttf-burmese-fonts/font-myanmar
Hi kokoye,
First of all, I am not a Debian Developer thus I will not be able to sponsor
your package. However, I come to make some reviews here:
Fonts packaging may not be trivial. I still strongly suggest that you seek
help from Debian Fonts Team first for best practice in font packaging.
As for the packaging itself, there are several critical and non-critical
problems. I will list them according to their severities:
* I could not find any sign of font "source" (or its original form) even
though you gave a link to a launchpad.net project. The project source looks
not the same as the tarball you distributed. The authorship information is not
clear, too. Please contact Debian Fonts Team for suggestions.
* Package description in debian/control file is not acceptable. As per the
requirement in Debian Policy [2] (please read that section in Debian Policy
again), you should describe the package clearly in plain English sentences,
not in disjointed English words. Mentioning PPA is also totally unnecessary.
* Files in debian/patches/ are not taken care well. They are largely patch
templates and metadata are not filled in at all. Patch names are also
confusing and could not reflect their purposes. Please follow the Patch
Tagging Guidelines [3] and fix them accordingly. Besides, you should be
explicit about why you are adding those files as patches. At least I could not
find out where those texts came out from.
* Where does the version string "1.0-1" come from? Where is the upstream "1.0"
release? I could not find it in that launchpad project you referenced.
* License information in debian/copyright seems to indicate that file
"ZawgyiOne2008.ttf" is completely non-free (even if you wrote literally "FREE"
in its license field). What is exactly its author and in what license did they
release it? Is there any upstream website or upstream statement for it? (If
there's any, please reference them.) Please recheck and update debian/
copyright information again.
* You are required to paste full OFL-1.1 license text into debian/copyright
file.
* Using "LGPL" as the name for "LGPL 3.0" license is not recommended. Please
add version string inside license name as stated in [4].
* Please bump your debhelper compat version to v11, together with debhelper
version requirement in debian/control file.
Please at least fix the first five issues here that I consider "critical" to
uploading this package into Debian or please give proper explanations. It will
be better if other issues are fixed too.
--
Regards,
Boyuan Yang
[2] https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/#the-description-of-a-package
[3] http://dep.debian.net/deps/dep3/
[4] https://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/copyright-format/1.0/