Bug#1110421: ITP: fonts-xolonium - futuristic typeface, with focus on legibility
On Tue, 5 Aug 2025 09:05:01 +0200 =?UTF-8?Q?S=C3=A9bastien_Noel?=
<sebastien@twolife.be> wrote:
* Package name : fonts-xolonium
Version : 3.7.0
* URL : http://fontlibrary.org/font/xolonium
* License : OPEN FONT LICENSE Version 1.1
Description : futuristic typeface, with focus on legibility
Xolonium provides support for Latin, Greek, and Cyrillic glyph sets,
and includes various pictograms and emoticons.
Xolonium originated as a custom font for the open-source game Xonotic.
(that game is my real goal see ITP #646377)
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Initial packaging attempt is available at
https://salsa.debian.org/twolife/fonts-xolonium
Hi,
I'll be happy to sponsor this font once htic clears the NEW queue.
A quick and superficial review of the current packaging work:
* Please rebase/cherry-pick your packaging on top of the official Git
repository instead of a tarball. Feel free to mail me if you need help
with that.
* License: The font is dual licensed: OFL-1.1+RFN (LICENSE.txt) and
GPL+exception (xonotic/README.txt). This should be reflected (= both
licenses copy-pasted) in d/copyright.
* License 2: RFN (Reserved Font Name) Fonts are not allowed in the main
archive unless the files compiled by the Debian infra are bit-for-bit
identical to those distributed upstream (see
<https://wiki.debian.org/Fonts/Bugs/rfn-violation>). Once all build
dependencies will be in Debian, you can check if the compiled files are
indeed identical to the original ones. If that is not the case, then
d/copyright will have to state that the font is GPL+exception-licensed only.
* d/control:
+ remove "Rules-Requires-Root: no", it's not the default.
+ add a comma after the last Build-Depends
+ is https://fontlibrary.org/en/font/xolonium the official homepage?
Maybe the gitlab page is "more official"?
+ unless you are strongly attached to this package, use "Maintainer:
Debian Fonts Team <debian-fonts@lists.debian.org> / Uploaders: you".
+ if you do the above, then use the /fonts-team/ namespace instead of
the /debian/ namespace for the repo.
Regards,
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Gioele Barabucci
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