Bug#718880: [Pkg-fonts-devel] Bug#718880: RFP: fonts-arkpandora -- Replacement fonts for Microsoft's Arial, Times, and Verdana fonts
Hello,
thanks everybody for the quick response!
On Tue, 06 Aug 2013, Vasudev Kamath wrote:
> > Added to my TODO list, but don't we already have other fonts that
> > claim to be Times New Roman/Arial drop-in replacements (maybe not
> > Verdana, though)? Anyway, packaging is probably easy, as usual.
>
> Just had a quick discussion with Christian over IRC, so sharing just
> thoughts it looks like upstream is dead? I had to download the archive
> using wayback machine (archive.org). Is it really required to maintain a
> font whose upstream is not active?
I digged deeper and those fonts are not strictly required for my package.
That said they are the default fonts used by the upstream software that
I'm packaging and it would be nice if we could use the same fonts as
upstream.
I saw that upstream disappeared from the web but the tarball can still be
grabbed in many places (including Gentoo). I have no opinion on whether
it's a big problem in the case of fonts. They rarely change after all.
Cheers,
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