Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Fabian Greffrath <fab...@greffrath.com>
* Package name : fonts-urw-base35 Version : 2:20130628-1 Upstream Author : (URW)++ Design & Development * URL : http://downloads.ghostscript.com/public/fonts/ * License : GPL (needs clarification, see #720906) Programming Lang: fonts Description : Set of the 35 PostScript Language Level 2 Base Fonts A commercial-quality set of the basic 35 PostScript Type 1 fonts. Each font includes .pfb (outlines), .afm (metrics), and .pfm (Windows printer metrics) files. The fonts are compatible with general Type 1 manipulation tools as well as with Ghostscript. This package will contain an updated set of the 35 PostScript base fonts, that has been made available by upstream author URW++ to Artifex, the developers of Ghostscript, and is already shipped as part of ghostscript 9.09. It is intended to replace the gsfonts package, which contains a fork of an ancient version of these fonts with added cyrilic glyphs. However, that fork is long unmaintained upstream and the glyphs are of reportedly questionable quality, which I cannot judge for myself, though. The package will also integrate the effort to make the fonts available to an X server and thus replace the gsfonts-x11 package. Finally, I am going to convince the texlive maintainers to replace their copy of these fonts in the texlive-fonts-recommended package (used for the psnfss latex-package) with this pristine release. All corresponsing package maintainers are in CC. I am going to maintain this package under the umbrella of the pkg-fonts team. The license for the fonts used to be GPL, but a corresponding note has apparently been forgotten in the current release. This issue is reported as #720906 in Debian (against the ghostscript package, which already ships an updated version of these fonts, but not yet this latest update) and has been brought to the attention of ghostscript upstream who will strive for clarification with URW++ in the short term. - Fabian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org