Re: [LONG] The fonts SIG irregular status report

2008-11-10 Thread Jens Petersen
> Actually we have 57 since Behdad requested FersiWeb fonts and no one I should not be that hard really to generate a script to generate a skeleton spec file for any given font . I know some packaging people frown on automated packaging but this might help lower the barrier to font packaging fo

Re: Beteckna fonts - new wishlist font

2008-11-10 Thread Jens Petersen
Thanks Máirí­n, > Just filed a new wishlist font: > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Beteckna_fonts Cool - it would be even better to file for a package review. :) Jens ___ Fedora-fonts-list mailing list Fedora-fonts-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.c

Re: Fedora 11 font package changes proposal (renames, splits, etc)

2008-11-10 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
After a long irc discussion with Bill Nottingham, I've reworked the package splitting rule in: « When packaging an upstream font archive that contains different font families (different font names in GUI font dropdowns), one must split each font family in a separate subpackage. Each subpackage mus

Re: Fedora 11 font package changes proposal (renames, splits, etc)

2008-11-10 Thread Bill Nottingham
Nicolas Mailhot ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said: > > This sounds like severe overkill. If they want different scripts, why > > not just adjust their fontconfig configuration? Realistically, I can't > > think of an example where we'd want to ship dejavu for one script but > > not another. Do you have one?

Re: Fedora 11 font package changes proposal (renames, splits, etc)

2008-11-10 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
Le lundi 10 novembre 2008 à 18:59 +0100, Behdad Esfahbod a écrit : > Also note that, the more font > packages we have, means the more font directories we have (unless we stuff > fonts from different packages in the same dir), Right now separate subpackages share the same directory. Precisely bec

Re: Fedora 11 font package changes proposal (renames, splits, etc)

2008-11-10 Thread Behdad Esfahbod
Nicolas Mailhot wrote: > Le lundi 10 novembre 2008 à 12:10 -0500, Bill Nottingham a écrit : >> Nicolas Mailhot ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said: >>> ▶ package splits, to offer more flexibility to spin groups and fedora >>> users >> ... >>> ▶ help spins and users >>> >>> Wanting serif from dejavu, mono fro

Re: Fedora 11 font package changes proposal (renames, splits, etc)

2008-11-10 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
Le lundi 10 novembre 2008 à 12:10 -0500, Bill Nottingham a écrit : > Nicolas Mailhot ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said: > > ▶ package splits, to offer more flexibility to spin groups and fedora > > users > > ... > > ▶ help spins and users > > > > Wanting serif from dejavu, mono from liberation, and sans

Re: Fedora 11 font package changes proposal (renames, splits, etc)

2008-11-10 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
Le lundi 10 novembre 2008 à 12:10 -0500, Bill Nottingham a écrit : > Nicolas Mailhot ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said: > > ▶ package splits, to offer more flexibility to spin groups and fedora > > users > > ... > > ▶ help spins and users > > > > Wanting serif from dejavu, mono from liberation, and sans

Re: Fedora 11 font package changes proposal (renames, splits, etc)

2008-11-10 Thread Bill Nottingham
Nicolas Mailhot ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said: > ▶ package splits, to offer more flexibility to spin groups and fedora > users ... > ▶ help spins and users > > Wanting serif from dejavu, mono from liberation, and sans from tiresias, > without dragging in all the other dejavu/liberation/tiresias fonts

Re: Fedora 11 font package changes proposal (renames, splits, etc)

2008-11-10 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
Le lundi 10 novembre 2008 à 11:36 -0500, Qianqian Fang a écrit : > Let me go ask him for more details and get back to this list. If anyone in > the list happen to know more about this, I would also be happen to learn > from you. It would be best if the android folks changed the metadata of their f

Re: Fedora 11 font package changes proposal (renames, splits, etc)

2008-11-10 Thread Qianqian Fang
Let me go ask him for more details and get back to this list. If anyone in the list happen to know more about this, I would also be happen to learn from you. Nicolas Mailhot wrote: Le lundi 10 novembre 2008 à 09:55 -0500, Qianqian Fang a écrit : this is what I got from android's mailing list

Re: Fedora 11 font package changes proposal (renames, splits, etc)

2008-11-10 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
Le dimanche 09 novembre 2008 à 12:09 +0100, Nicolas Mailhot a écrit : > ▶▶▶ Proof of concept: > > Dejavu has been used to proof the concepts in rawhide (cf the wiki page) To proof it some more I've separated the common macro, spec templates and directory definitions in a separate package, then m

Re: Fedora 11 font package changes proposal (renames, splits, etc)

2008-11-10 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
Le lundi 10 novembre 2008 à 09:55 -0500, Qianqian Fang a écrit : > this is what I got from android's mailing list: > > http://groups.google.com/group/android-discuss/browse_thread/thread/3c60867cab66e23d/ab69c3174b63ca4c?#ab69c3174b63ca4c > > the replier is one of the google guys. I am not sure i

Re: Fedora 11 font package changes proposal (renames, splits, etc)

2008-11-10 Thread Qianqian Fang
this is what I got from android's mailing list: http://groups.google.com/group/android-discuss/browse_thread/thread/3c60867cab66e23d/ab69c3174b63ca4c?#ab69c3174b63ca4c the replier is one of the google guys. I am not sure if this means we've got it clarified. Nicolas Mailhot wrote: Be very care

Re: Fedora 11 font package changes proposal (renames, splits, etc)

2008-11-10 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
Le dimanche 09 novembre 2008 à 18:44 -0500, Qianqian Fang a écrit : > One of the font packages that I am maintaining, wqy-zenhei-fonts, recently > added a monospaced face (WenQuanYi Zen Hei Mono), via ttc. Because > the original sans face and the mono face co-exist in the same font file > (almost t