What happens if a package includes non-free fonts already?

[Parag N(पराग़)]

Hi,

On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 6:33 AM, Kevin Fenzi <kevin at scrye.com> wrote:
> On Sat, 17 Jul 2010 23:35:26 +0200
> Sven Lankes <sven at lank.es> wrote:
>
>> On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 10:09:37AM +0100, Paul Flo Williams wrote:
>>
>> > I imagine that Nicholas raised this problem while doing his periodic
>> > fonts-incorrectly-packaged-in-non-font-package checks. The request
>> > to separate out the fonts from poker3d-data has been long since
>> > closed WONTFIX:
>> > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=477443
>>
>> I just went through all bugs blocking F11-new-font-rules that have
>> been closed recently through the bugzapper EOL procedure and reopened
>> those which are clearly still valid.
>>
>> A rather large number of packages never had a single reply from one of
>> the maintainers.
>
> Sad. ;(
>
>> Do we have any provenpackages who volunteer to be CCed on bugs that
>> have patches attached? (Not that there currently are any such bugs
>> with patches but reopening I have found some low hanging fruits which
>> I'm planning to look at in the future).
>
> We should be careful here... if the packagers are really gone and no
> longer maintaining we should orphan the packages so people can take
> them over, not keep drive by maintaining them without being very
> involved. :) IMHO.
>

I think those packages whose spec's need to be re-written should block
F14Target and volunteer's are welcome to post patches/fix them.
Recently I come across few packages which need to follow current fonts
packaging guidelines. I start working on those but found
openfontlibrary.org is almost broken and for those fonts it is
upstream. I am now searching those fonts if have some other publisher.
If i will find any other foundry then will use and import it in Fedora
otherwise my suggestion will be to retire those packages whose
upstream are gone now.

Parag.