On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 5:58 AM, Firmicus <[email protected]> wrote: > Ronald van Haren a écrit : >> On 4/6/09, Firmicus <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> I'd like to bring ttf-linux-libertine from community to extra. It is an >>> excellent, general-purpose Open-Type serif font. It has 84 votes on AUR. >>> >>> Is that ok with you? >>> >>> Firmicus >>> >>> >>> >>> >> >> Your message got me looking at the fonts currently in the extra repo. >> There are quite a few fonts there of which I've never heard of, and >> quite a few of them are orphans. Not sure if they deserve their place >> in extra as I'm not an artistic type of guy who does a lot with fonts >> and such, but how about swapping some of them with the most popular >> fonts in community (liberation, freefont, inconsolata and libertine)? >> All these seem to be maintained by developers anyway so it won't >> increase workload. >> >> Ronald > > I actually thought freefont and liberation were already in extra. Well, > they definitely deserve to be there, along with libertine and inconsolata. > I could even maintain them if pressh and BaSh don't want to. > > Indeed, several fonts in extra could be moved to community. The > following ones certainly: > ttf-fireflysung > ttf-isabella > ttf-mph-2b-damase > and perhaps also: > ttf-junicode (even though I like and use this one!) > ttf-cheapskate > ttf-ms-fonts (we had a discussion about this one) > And what about ttf-bitstream-vera? Since DejaVu is a superset thereof > and is actively developed, there is no real need for Vera anymore. > > On the other hand I don't think we should remove fonts that belong to > the i18n category, such as > ttf-arphic-uming > ttf-arphic-ukai > ttf-indic-otf > ttf-freebanglafont > ttf-thai > ttf-khmer > ttf-tibetan-machine > etc
Generally, all these fonts packages are rarely updated upstream so as long as they are up-to-date and in working conditions, I see no problem in keeping them in extra. BTW, ttf-fireflysung and ttf-mph-2b-damase are i18n-related so should remain in extra. > > François >
