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 < [email protected]> > > Author of the sole blog post about Clear Sans: > Gail R Frederick <[email protected]> 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 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
