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Bug#436729: texlive-fonts-recommended: short description of urw fonts unhelpful in package dsc



On Sunday 02 September 2007 12:06, Frank Küster wrote:
> >   helvetic -- Macro package for TeX (the most popular).

> Thanks for reporting, and sorry for the late reply. 

No problem.

> I'm not sure what 
> the descriptions should look like.  These packages don't contain macro
> packages, only font files (tfm in the case of adobeuro, a complete set
> of Type1 fonts with tfm, vf and fd files for the others).
>
> Maybe the name should mention the actual font this provides, e.g. URW
> Nimbus Sans L for helvetic.

Yes, it should be a) say that is provides a font (and which one) 
if it could name the actual font as well, this would be a plus.

> And as far as upstream is concerned, I'd really hope we are able to
> somehow clear up the psfonts mess and have one package urw-base35...

Cool.
Thanks for the work on Debian and TeXLive

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