Hi, Ср 20 мая 2020 @ 19:39 Nicholas D Steeves <[email protected]>:
>> all-the-icons.el: >> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=893983 >> https://salsa.debian.org/Valdaer/all-the-icons.el >> https://mentors.debian.net/package/all-the-icons-el >> > > I do not believe this one meets our high standards, which is why I gave > up on the ITP. Namely, I investigated the standards of the Font Team, > saw how they were generating fonts, saw this was not possible with > all-the-icons.el. I believe I also filed some bugs and/or attempted to > contact our Font Team, but sadly never received a reply. At any rate, > while I think font icons are a cool hack, others have expressed strong > opinions about how font icons are an abomination that should DIAF. > > Supposing we did go ahead with uploading this, my concerns are: 1) > trademarked images that are removed from the font-foo packages for DFSG > reasons. 2) Conflicts with the system-wide font-foo packages and > associated bug potential. > > I just noticed I never provided my rationale to #893983, so I'm doing > that now. Probably one could use fonts from the Debian archive. That is, symlinking them, or changing relevant ELisp code, no? At least font Awesome is already packaged as fonts-font-awesome. Guess in case some of the fonts are not packaged yet, one should package them separately first. Cheers! Lev
