Sean, On Sun, Jul 16, 2017 at 5:42 PM, Sean Whitton <spwhit...@spwhitton.name> wrote: > Hello Paul, > > On Sun, Jul 16, 2017 at 04:28:03PM -0700, Paul Hardy wrote: >> My intention was to point someone new to packaging fonts in Debian in >> the direction of an easy path, rather than leaving it up to that >> person to find things out the hard way--or worse yet, doing things the >> hard way. > > Right. It would be good to have that somewhere ... > >> How about a footnote pointing to >> https://wiki.debian.org/Fonts/PackagingPolicy? That document is not >> formal policy, but it would make life easier for someone if they are >> new to packaging fonts. >> >> Alternatively, do you think this bug report should get reassigned to >> the New Maintainer's Guide and be addressed as a request there? The >> scope of that guide is mainly to walk someone through creating a >> simple binary package. > > ... and the new maintainer's guide seems like a decent place. > > How about adding a section to that guide listing links to packaging > guides for specific types of packages, such as fonts?
I can certainly do that if the maintainer of that package would like to add such a section. I have filed a bug report with a set of proposed patches for maint-guide, and would wait for that to get processed first (with my patches accepted or rejected). Take care, Paul Hardy