Bug#868496: debian-policy: Please Clarify Need for update-fonts-dir in postinst and postrm Scripts

[Paul Hardy <unifoundry@gmail.com>]

Sean,

On Sun, Jul 16, 2017 at 5:42 PM, Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name> wrote:
> Hello Paul,
>
> On Sun, Jul 16, 2017 at 04:28:03PM -0700, Paul Hardy wrote:
>> My intention was to point someone new to packaging fonts in Debian in
>> the direction of an easy path, rather than leaving it up to that
>> person to find things out the hard way--or worse yet, doing things the
>> hard way.
>
> Right.  It would be good to have that somewhere ...
>
>> How about a footnote pointing to
>> https://wiki.debian.org/Fonts/PackagingPolicy?  That document is not
>> formal policy, but it would make life easier for someone if they are
>> new to packaging fonts.
>>
>> Alternatively, do you think this bug report should get reassigned to
>> the New Maintainer's Guide and be addressed as a request there?  The
>> scope of that guide is mainly to walk someone through creating a
>> simple binary package.
>
> ... and the new maintainer's guide seems like a decent place.
>
> How about adding a section to that guide listing links to packaging
> guides for specific types of packages, such as fonts?

I can certainly do that if the maintainer of that package would like
to add such a section.  I have filed a bug report with a set of
proposed patches for maint-guide, and would wait for that to get
processed first (with my patches accepted or rejected).

Take care,


Paul Hardy