[Fedora-packaging] Bundled text-based .afm font files

[Josef Stribny]

Hi,

thanks both of you for your thoughts.

Since I really tried to persuade upstream to abandon .afm files (but failed doing so) I think I will bundle them this time (until there is a better way of doing so).
Converting them unfortunately doesn't make any sense in this example, because they need and want to have .afm in their gem.

Thank you
Josef

----- Original Message -----
From: "Nicolas Mailhot" <nicolas.mailhot at laposte.net>
To: "Discussion of RPM packaging standards and practices for Fedora" <packaging at lists.fedoraproject.org>
Sent: Monday, May 6, 2013 5:28:49 PM
Subject: Re: [Fedora-packaging] Bundled text-based .afm font files


Le Mar 30 avril 2013 09:00, Toshio Kuratomi a écrit :
> On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 06:52:34AM -0400, Josef Stribny wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I would like to package rubygem-prawn (PDF generator) [1, 2] for Fedora,
>> but I am unsure about the font files that are bundled in the .gem file.
>>
>> There are many .afm font files which seem not to be considered as font
>> files according to the guidelines [3] as Miroslav in the review [2]
>> already pointed out. Is this true and is it then fine to package them
>> normally as any other files? Or is there a special approach of
>> bundling/packaging text-based font files like .afm?
>>
>
> Bundling would be the wrong connclusion to draw.  nim should speak to this
> but iirc, his position would be that the software should be converted to
> use
> ttf and otf fonts instead of afm and the fonts, if needsed, should be
> converted from afm to otf.

Right, I don't care much about afm files, most of our apps can not use
them, you get all the hassles of standard fonts without the satisfaction
they'll be useful to a large range of users. So basically: 1. there is no
special place where afm files should be put on the filesystem and 2. the
legal problems are the same.

Regards,

-- 
Nicolas Mailhot

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