Bug#406864: status of the ttf-sil-andika ITP
Holger Levsen wrote:
> Hi Nicolas,
>
> it was good to meet you in Edinburgh!
Same here. I enjoyed Debconf a lot. Thanks for all the hard work.
Enjoyed being able to watch the video recordings too :)
> On Saturday 09 June 2007 21:57, you wrote:
>>>> The package is now named ttf-sil-andika-desrev to better reflect the
>>>> design review status, of course it is still very useful at this stage
>>>> but we wanted to make that clearer. (When the more complete Andika is
>>>> released when can do a rename).
>>> Hmmm. This means, they will need to go through NEW twice :-/ Wouldn't it
>>> be better (and have the same effect) to note that in the versionnumber
>>> and package description?
>> OK, so I took your advice: it's better at this stage to keep the initial
>> ITP name. Makes it easier for you and the ftp-master team.
>
> ok, cool :)
>
>> The design review status is made clear in the packaging description and
>> the changelog.
>
> Great, was that already in ttf-sil-andika-desrev_0.001-2.dsc ?
>
>> Will be putting up the new source package shortly.
>
> :)
>
> Probably not, as my remarks file is from the 28th of may (arrg! sorry for
> taking so long...!)
>
> Anyway, those were the remarks I had at that time and against 0.001-2:
>
> - linda+lintian clean, nice
> - feedback period is complete (jan 31 2007) but the description or README
> mentions it still... (minor, I would still sponsor it like this, but you
> should fix it :)
Yes, the feedback period is over, but it will still take a while for the
final font to be designed and released, so the current design reviews
are still very much worth uploading even thought they reflect are WIP.
I've added a note about this in the debian/control. No need to change
the changelog entries in FONTLOG.txt.
> - licence of the packaging? not mentioned in debian/copyright
Mmm, seems I've missed that. Fairly new it seems, haven't seen it as
such in maint-guide or most other font packages. Will add that. Thanks.
> - version: 0.0.desrev-2007.05.08-2 / ttf-sil-andika - you said above this is
> resolved/changed
0.001-desrev3
> - control/description mentions authors, debian/copyright doesnt
> - AndikaDevRev(A-G).ttf - are those different fonts or different revisions?
They have glyph variations. The differences are described on
http://scripts.sil.org/Andika_technical
> I guess the only issue which really blocks sponsoring is the copyright and
> naming stuff, the rest would be nice if you could fix/enhance it.
>
> Can you point me to a new source package? If the blocking stuff is fixed, I'll
> upload immediatly this time :-)
The updated debian/ is committed the Alioth svn and the new source
package is on: http://yosch.org/packages/debian
> regards,
> Holger (still sorry for taking so long to send this short mail...)
No problems at all for the delay, and thanks a lot for the sponsoring :)
--
Nicolas Spalinger
http://scripts.sil.org
http://pkg-fonts.alioth.debian.org
https://launchpad.net/people/fonts
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