Bug#668219: ITP: otf -- Open Trace Format support library

[Samuel Thibault <sthibault@debian.org>]

Harshula, le Tue 10 Apr 2012 11:40:59 +1000, a écrit :
> On Mon, 2012-04-09 at 20:06 +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> 
> > There is already a libotf in debian, for handling OpenType Font. What
> > I intend to do is renaming the so to allow co-installation, but
> > keep development file names as is and use a conflict between -dev
> > packages. Does it sound OK?
> 
> OTF is an established acronym for OpenType Fonts.

And OTF is an established acronym for Open Trace Format. Worse, it's the
filename extension.

> It's unfortunate that Open Trace Format uses the phrase OTF.

It's unfortunate that OpenType Font uses the phrase OTF.

> Would they consider renaming?

I don't think they would, it's relatively old (2005) and known already.

> Emacs depends on libotf0.

And thus my mentioning “What I intend to do is renaming the so to
allow co-installation” in the ITP.

> I guess the question is, do you think someone wanting to use the
> existing libotf-dev might also want to use Open Trace Format's dev
> package?

Such program can not exist yet, simply because upstreams already
conflict anyway.  We do not actually invent a conflict here, it already
exists.

Samuel