conky-colors fonts included in package

[Bersam K]

Hi,

I want to maintain new package called conky-colors, i found that this
package included some fonts. i ask a friend (maintainer) and he told me
that i have make separate packages for each font. but in case, these are
not really alphabet fonts, they just used for svg in conky. like weather
font that included some shape of sun, moon, wind, raining, etc. or some
clocks.
now i want to know that i have to make sub packages?
i added this list of all fonts that will be installed by this package in
/usr/share/fonts/TTF & /usr/share/fonts/OTF below:

aClock_Hour.ttf
aClock_Min.ttf
Arial_Black.ttf
Arrows.ttf
clockfaces.ttf
conky_symbols_by_wiltur-d3ij3mi.ttf
ConkyWeather.ttf
Devil_inside.ttf
digirtu.ttf
marvosym.ttf
Musicelements.ttf
openlogos.ttf
PizzadudeBullets.ttf
Poky.ttf
StyleBats.ttf
Varis.ttf
weather.ttf
Webdings.ttf
zoraclockH.ttf
zoraclockM.ttf
zoraclockS.ttf
BTNSWTCH.TTF
PIE4MAP.TTF
RSBILLSD.TTF

Just about that "Arial_Black.ttf", I'm not sure about this, I prefer to not
include this in package (just remove it in source) to solve this problem.
for more resources, you can download this conky-colors in github
(/fonts/conkycolors):
https://github.com/helmuthdu/conky_colors

[Behdad Esfahbod]

On 06/13/2012 06:23 PM, Bersam K wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I want to maintain new package called conky-colors, i found that this package
> included some fonts. i ask a friend (maintainer) and he told me that i have
> make separate packages for each font. but in case, these are not really
> alphabet fonts, they just used for svg in conky. like weather font that
> included some shape of sun, moon, wind, raining, etc. or some clocks.
> now i want to know that i have to make sub packages?
> i added this list of all fonts that will be installed by this package in
> /usr/share/fonts/TTF & /usr/share/fonts/OTF below:

If they are not Unicode-encoded characters, they definitely do not belong in
those directories.  Even if they are, maybe they still should be in a private
directory.  FcConfigAppFontAddDir() is your friend.  Just call it before Pango
or any other system kicks in.

behdad
> aClock_Hour.ttf
> aClock_Min.ttf
> Arial_Black.ttf
> Arrows.ttf
> clockfaces.ttf
> conky_symbols_by_wiltur-d3ij3mi.ttf
> ConkyWeather.ttf
> Devil_inside.ttf
> digirtu.ttf
> marvosym.ttf
> Musicelements.ttf
> openlogos.ttf
> PizzadudeBullets.ttf
> Poky.ttf
> StyleBats.ttf
> Varis.ttf
> weather.ttf
> Webdings.ttf
> zoraclockH.ttf
> zoraclockM.ttf
> zoraclockS.ttf
> BTNSWTCH.TTF
> PIE4MAP.TTF
> RSBILLSD.TTF
>
> Just about that "Arial_Black.ttf", I'm not sure about this, I prefer to not
> include this in package (just remove it in source) to solve this problem.
> for more resources, you can download this conky-colors in github
> (/fonts/conkycolors):
> https://github.com/helmuthdu/conky_colors
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[Nicolas Mailhot]

Le Jeu 14 juin 2012 00:23, Bersam K a écrit :
> Hi,
>
> I want to maintain new package called conky-colors, i found that this
> package included some fonts. i ask a friend (maintainer) and he told me
> that i have make separate packages for each font. but in case, these are
> not really alphabet fonts, they just used for svg in conky. like weather
> font that included some shape of sun, moon, wind, raining, etc. or some
> clocks.
> now i want to know that i have to make sub packages?

Yes you'll have to make font (sub) packages for each font family you need to
use, and check each supackage for legal and technical problem

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:FontsPolicy

Legal means a font with a licence conflicting with Fedora goals, or a font
that was constructed from bits of other fonts with conflicting licences
(either conflicting with the final licence or with Fedora legal rules)

Technical means at least checking the font does not hijack the name of another
font (causing problems in documents that reference this other font) and
checking it is properly unicode-encoded. Unicode defines standard codepoints
for many symbols (arrows, weather, etc) and a Private Use Area where font
authors can put symbols which have no codepoint yet.

If your upstream was careful the checks will be easy and fast.
If it was not — you're in for a world of pain cleaning up the mess before it
can be imported in Fedora

Best regards,