Bug#736665: RFS: fonts-clear-sans/1.0-1

[Daniel Aleksandersen <code@daniel.priv.no>]

On 26. jan. 2014 02:02, Paul Wise wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 26, 2014 at 8:14 AM, Daniel Aleksandersen wrote:
> 
>> This is my first package. Should I follow some special procedure? or
>> just rename the files and re-upload?
> 
> Since probably no-one has the old package name installed, just rename
> everything, retitle the bug and re-upload.

New package name at http://mentors.debian.net/package/fonts-clear-sans

>> I have already contacted Intel to ask for the source-code.
> 
> Ok great.
> 
>> a bit difficult to get in touch with them.
> 
> Try contacting the site admins about the mailing list:
> 
> https://01.org/about/contact-us
> 
> I was able to find some email addresses by doing web searches:
> 
> The maintainer of the project:
> Darren Wilson < darren.p.wilson@intel.com>
> 
> Author of the sole blog post about Clear Sans:
> Gail R Frederick <gail.r.frederick@intel.com>

I used their contact form. Will wait a few days and then start emailing
the contacts you found directly. Thank you for the help!

> If upstream is unreachable it might not be a good idea to package the
> project, unless you want to become upstream.

I would have to fork the project, declare the SVGs the source, and then
convert them back to OpenType? That sounds like a lot of work. :-/

>> Is this critical for the packaging, though?
> 
> DFSG item 2 applies to all packages in Debian, fonts need to come with
> source too. That could be the binary TTF files or the SVG files but it
> is much more likely to be something else. Fonts often require
> proprietary software to build unfortunately, looking at the SVG files
> some metadata indicates that may be the case. To be sure though, you
> need to find out upstream development processes.
-- 
Daniel Aleksandersen