Bug 477418

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This bug has been filed because we've detected your package includes one or several font files:

repoquery -C --repoid=rawhide -f '*.ttf' -f '*.otf' -f '*.pfb' -f '*.pfa' --qf='%{SOURCERPM}\n' |sed -e 's+-[0-9.-]*\.fc[123456789]\(.*\)src.rpm++g'|sort|uniq

Unfortunately this script does not detect symlinks to other packages, so if that's your case, you can close this bug report now.

Otherwise, you should know that:

— Fedora guidelines demand the packaging of fonts in a separate package (or subpackage):
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Guidelines#Avoid_bundling_of_fonts_in_other_packages

— our font packaging guidelines recently changed, and every package that ships fonts must be adapted to the new templates available in the fontpackages-devel package:
  – http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackagingDrafts/Fonts_packaging_automation_(2008-11-18)
  – http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_fonts_policy_package
  – http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Simple_fonts_spec_template
  – http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fonts_spec_template_for_multiple_fonts

Please make your package conform to the current guidelines in rawhide (you can use the fontpackages package in F9 or F10 to test, but only submit changes to rawhide please).

If your package is not principaly a font package, depending on a separate font package or subpackage is the prefered solution. If your application does not use fontconfig you can always package symlinks to the files provided by the font package and installed in the correct fontconfig directories.

It is preferred to create a font package or subpackage per font family, though it is not currently a hard guidelines requirement (it may become before Fedora 11 is released). The definition of a font family is given on:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fonts_spec_template_notes/font-family

The new templates should make the creation of font subpackages easy and safe.

The following packages have already been converted by their packager and can serve as examples:
❄ andika-fonts
❄ apanov-heuristica-fonts
❄ bitstream-vera-fonts
❄ charis-fonts
❄ dejavu-fonts
❄ ecolier-court-fonts
❄ edrip-fonts
❄ gfs-ambrosia-fonts
❄ gfs-artemisia-fonts
❄ gfs-baskerville-fonts
❄ gfs-bodoni-classic-fonts
❄ gfs-bodoni-fonts
❄ gfs-complutum-fonts
❄ gfs-didot-classic-fonts
❄ gfs-didot-fonts
❄ gfs-eustace-fonts
❄ gfs-fleischman-fonts
❄ gfs-garaldus-fonts
❄ gfs-gazis-fonts
❄ gfs-jackson-fonts
❄ gfs-neohellenic-fonts
❄ gfs-nicefore-fonts
❄ gfs-olga-fonts
❄ gfs-porson-fonts
❄ gfs-solomos-fonts
❄ gfs-theokritos-fonts
❄ stix-fonts
❄ yanone-kaffeesatz-fonts

If you have any remaining questions about the new guidelines please ask them on:
fedora-fonts-list at redhat.com

To help packagers manage the transition to the new guidelines, we've published the following FAQ

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Shipping_fonts_in_other_packages_(FAQ)

FPC approved those two additional guidelines recently, please take them into account if you need to create or update a fonts package or subpackage:

– 2009-01-14: naming
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackagingDrafts/Font_package_naming_%282009-01-13%29

— 2009-01-06: exact splitting rules
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackagingDrafts/Font_package_splitting_rules_%282008-12-21%29

(packagers that can drop font files and just depend on an existing font package are not impacted)

This is a reminder for all the packagers that still have bugs open about adapting to font packaging guidelines there is only one month left before Fedora 11 beta:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/11/Schedule

A week of this month will see the Fedora 11 mass rebuild, that will load the build farm:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_11_Mass_Rebuild

As already converted packages showed it is quite possible to make mistakes during the conversion. Please make releng and QA happy and don't wait till the last minute to do your changes (avoid pre-beta panic). If possible start before the mass rebuild so we don't burn cycles on incorrect packages.

The PackageKit enhancements stated for Fedora 11 assume fonts and font-using packages are sane (basically respect packaging guidelines). It is quite possible that not-converted packages will interact with the F11 font autoinstall feature in "interesting" ways.
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/AutomaticFontInstallation

We don't want that

There is extensive documentation on the wiki and most of your questions have likely already been answered there. Please do read the FAQ before making more work for the support team by asking questions answered there.
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Shipping_fonts_in_Fedora_%28FAQ%29

In the light of bug #477044:

This font spec needs the following modifications:

1. Add "%define	fontname  linux-libertine" at the top
2. Remove "%define fontdir" directive (at line 2)
3. Change "Name: linux-libertine-fonts" to "Name: %{fontname}-fonts"
4. Replace all the remaining "%{fontdir}" with "%{_fontdir}"
5. Replace the "%files" section completely with (No %files directive):

   %_font_pkg *.ttf
   %doc Readme *.txt
   %dir %{_fontdir}

Thanks!

Also,

6. Add "BuildRequires: fontpackages-devel > 1.13"
7. Remove both %post and %postun sections

%dir %{_fontdir} is not necessary anymore, too many people had problems with it, so the fedora macros were changed not to require it (at the expense of a minor directory ownership optimization)

*** Bug 490364 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Also upstream has released a new major version. Was even featured on lwn.net

This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 11 development cycle.
Changing version to '11'.

More information and reason for this action is here:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping

ok, I have checked in a 4.4.1-1 version to rawhide that I think works with all the current guidelines. Suggestions/review/comment on it welcome. 

If all looks well, I would like to push this to at least F11 as well. 

Sorry for the massive delay here. ;( 

See rawhide and/or: http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=1474651

(In reply to comment #11)

> If all looks well, I would like to push this to at least F11 as well. 

> See rawhide and/or: http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=1474651  

There is still some work to do :

1. linuxbiolinum and linuxlibertinec need to be split in their own subpackage (you should have only one font() autogenerated provide per package), each with its own fontconfig file

2. you should use 60 as priority for libertine (maybe 61 for the others if you don't think they're solid)

3. please take a look at
/usr/share/fontconfig/templates/substitution-font-template.*
to write correct fontconfig files
Biolinum needs to be registered as a sans-serif font
Libertine needs to be registered as a serif font, and declared as substitute for Times Roman and Times New Roman

Also it'd be great to move your build logic to a Makefile and have it merged upstream, this way upstream gets to make sure the correct fontforge options are used :p

(In reply to comment #11)
> Sorry for the massive delay here. ;(

My fault, too. Sorry and thanks to Kevin.

(In reply to comment #12)
> There is still some work to do :

I don't think I can keep up with this stuff anymore. I'd be glad if someone with more insight would take over or at least is willing to co-maintain this package together with Kevin.

Some background: My current occupation has to do with QA of distributions, upstream KVM and Xen on specific processors and chipsets. Doing this stuff and getting it automated just eats too much time and brain... ;)

(In reply to comment #13)
> Also it'd be great to move your build logic to a Makefile and have it merged
> upstream.

I asked upstream some time ago to do this. He refused to do so and recommended to use his pre-built fonts, which goes against the Fedora ideal "everything has to be built from source".

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This still needs doing, and I have still failed to do it. ;( 

Help welcome, or I will try and get to it when I can.

Created attachment 478761 [details]
Updated spec file

The changes made for:

* adding linux-libertine-biolinum-fonts for Linux Biolinum fonts
* adjusting the fontconfig priority

Created attachment 478762 [details]
Updated fontconfig file for Linux Libertine fonts

The changes made for:

* adding the generic names rule
* adding the font substitution rules for Times Roman and times New Roman
* fixing the font substitution rule for Linux Libertine O

Created attachment 478763 [details]
New fontconfig file for Linux Biolinum fonts

Wow. Once again this dropped off my radar. ;( 

Akira: Thanks so much for the changes. 

Would you be willing to co-maintain? if so, you could just commit your changes directly. 
we should probibly also upgrade to the newest version in rawhide/f15 at least (4.7.5). 

Feel free to apply in pkgdb and I will approve you... or if you would rather not, I can try and submit your changes and get some builds done.

Fixed in linux-libertine-fonts-4.7.5-1.2.fc16.