[Bug 495399] Review Request: NotCourier-Sans-sfd-fonts - NotCourier Sans is a re-interpretation of Nimbus Mono.

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Ankur Sinha <sanjay.ankur at gmail.com> changed:

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--- Comment #4 from Ankur Sinha <sanjay.ankur at gmail.com>  2009-05-21 13:52:45 EDT ---
(In reply to comment #3)
> First review:
> 
> 1. W: file-not-utf8
> /usr/share/doc/NotCourier-Sans-sfd-fonts-20080906/FONTLOG.txt
> ⇒ please use iconv to fix this file's encoding (you have an example in sil
> andika, make sure you've the right source encoding though)
> 
> 2. please use lowercase package naming only as requested by the fonts packaging
> guidelines
> 
> 3. please add the oflb- foundry prefix to the package name
> 
> 4. unless the fonts authors asked you to, I don't thing the -sfd postfix is
> really needed
> 
> 5. your URL does not work
> 
> 6. it seems upstreams versions this font properly, so you can use a real
> version instead of a timestamp (current is 1.1)
> 
> 7. I'd drop the first § of your description
> 
> 8. the font is derived from a GPL font so it must stay GPL. Upstream has
> already fixed this in its last release (do not forget to update your %doc)
> 
> 9. Be very careful to use the exact name the font declares in your fontconfig
> file. For version 1.1, it will be "NotCourierSans"
> 
> 10. since the fonts are missing an italic face, I wouldn't stack them at 60 in
> fontconfig, 61 or 62 would be better
> 
> Anyway that's all for now, thank you for continuing to package Fedora fonts  

bah... they edited it all on may 17.. I'll redo the package..

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