First font-package - fonts - Fedora mailing-lists

31 Dec 2008


      Hi,
I have started to look into font-packaging as the kde-sig needs a couple
of fonts that are currently shipped with e.g. kdeedu and kdelibs
packaged separately.
The first font I am looking into is dustismo:
(http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Dustimo_fonts)
(Dustismo is currently shipped with kdeedu:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=477406)
I have a first spec-file here:
http://sven.lank.es/Fedora/SPECS/dustismo.spec
http://sven.lank.es/Fedora/SRPM/dustismo-fonts-20030207-1.fc11.src.rpm
As my knowledge about fonts is basically zero I'd like to get some
feedback on the spec-file before submitting this for a package review.
The wishlist wiki-page mentions "GPL with font exception" for this font
- but the font-exception is not in the license that is shipped with the
fonts (GPLv2+) so this is probably wrong.
The last update of this font was in 2003 - it is currently only
available on 3rd-party font-sites. There doesn't seem to be an
'upstream' anymore.
There are two things I wasn't quite able figure out using the
fontsig-wiki-pages:
1. Is it acceptable to ship a font with only the ttf and no other
   'source'?
The spec template has this:
...
Building fonts from sources is always preferred. For GPLed or LGPLed
fonts this is required by the license.
2. I do need some help with filling the description with something
   meaningful
Again quoting the spec-template:
...
Font descriptions must detail information on the font style,
Unicode coverage, and intended use[3] to help users choose the 
right packages to install. ...
What other information could/should I add to the description
3. fontconfig
My feeling is that I don't need any fontconfig-files for a font like
   this. Am I right?
Thanks for your feedback.
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