Bug#496070: [ghostscript] opentypefont
[Resent to include the bug report.]
Am Dienstag, den 27.08.2013, 10:08 +0200 schrieb Jonas Smedegaard:
> Yes, I noticed your emails about that at the Ghostscript project earlier
> this month, and also seem to recall you raising this IRL in New York.
This must have been someone different. As much as I'd love to, I have
never been in New York. ;)
> I don't like how the Ghostscript project stuff lots of things into their
> project. Specifically about the URW++ fonts they lack proper licensing
> - also separately packaged in those zip files. I filed bug#720906 and
> emailed the Ghostscript project about that yesterday.
That's indeed an issue, but I believe it can be sorted out rather
quickly.
> Those URW++ fonts - now that they are cleaned up - are better tracked
> directly from URW++, in my opinion. Yesterday I sent an email to URW++
> asking them for a download URL.
I exchanged some mail with an exmployee from Artifex, the developers of
Ghostscript, and he told me that URW's interest in maintaining these
fonts converges towards zero. They even had to pay them for the update
to the fonts that got shipped with 9.09.
> So generally I agree with your plan - just would prefer fonts-urw++
> instead of fonts-ghostscript.
Na, URW ist the foundry, not the font name. Fedora, for example, calls
the package ghostscript-fonts. I think we could call it fonts-urw
++-ghostscript, but since there are no other ghostscript fonts from
other foundries available in Debian we should better drop the foundry
part and simply call it fonts-ghostscript. I believe that's the most
expected and plausible package name.
> I totally agree we should get rid of code copies. I have hesitated
> dropping them for now, as I am afraid some internal Ghostscript code
> might bypass the font path and rely on the specific location.
>
> Hm. I am now at the #ghostscript irc channel, so will simply ask... :-)
According to my contact at Artifex, ghostscript relies on the font file
names for its internally used fonts, but even those can be mapped to any
other font file by means of a config file in fontmap.d.
- Fabian
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