Bug 1208838 - Re-Review Request: gdouros-alexander-fonts - A Greek typeface inspired by Alexander Wilson
Summary: Re-Review Request: gdouros-alexander-fonts - A Greek typeface inspired by Ale...
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: Package Review
Version: rawhide
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Parag AN(पराग)
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2015-04-03 11:20 UTC by Alexander Ploumistos
Modified: 2015-05-11 19:04 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

Fixed In Version: gdouros-alexander-fonts-5.01-0.2.20150430.fc22
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Last Closed: 2015-05-11 19:04:59 UTC
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panemade: fedora-review+


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Red Hat Bugzilla 532816 0 medium CLOSED Review Request: gdouros-alexander-fonts - A Greek typeface inspired by Alexander Wilson 2021-02-22 00:41:40 UTC

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Description Alexander Ploumistos 2015-04-03 11:20:35 UTC
Spec URL:
https://alexpl.fedorapeople.org/packages/fonts/gdouros/gdouros-alexander-fonts/gdouros-alexander-fonts.spec

SRPM URL:
https://alexpl.fedorapeople.org/packages/fonts/gdouros/gdouros-alexander-fonts/gdouros-alexander-fonts-5.01-1.fc21.src.rpm

Description:
A text typeface using the Greek letters designed by Alexander Wilson
(1714-1786), a Scottish doctor, astronomer, and type founder, who established a
type foundry in Glasgow in 1744. The type was especially designed for an
edition of Homer’s epics, published in 1756-8 by Andrew and Robert Foulis,
printers to the University of Glasgow. A modern revival, Wilson Greek, was
designed by Matthew Carter in 1995. Peter S. Baker is also using Wilson’s Greek
type in his Junicode font for medieval scholars (2007).

Latin and Cyrillic are based on a Garamond typeface. The font covers the
Windows Glyph List, IPA Extensions, Greek Extended, Ancient Greek Numbers,
Byzantine and Ancient Greek Musical Notation, various typographic extras and
several Open Type features (Case-Sensitive Forms, Small Capitals, Subscript,
Superscript, Numerators, Denominators, Fractions, Old Style Figures, Historical
Forms, Stylistic Alternates, Ligatures).

It was created by George Douros.


Fedora Account System Username: alexpl

Koji scratch build:
http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=9402802


The font is already in fedora, but the current maintainer has been non-responsive for quite some time, so this is the last step of the relevant policy - a takeover request.

I have cleaned up the spec files from deprecated commands, added AppStream metadata and I have included a sample file provided by upstream in a separate doc package. Following a brief discussion on devel ML and after having contacted upstream for clarifications, I have decided not to include the hinted font in the source package.

Upstream ships Alexander as part of the "TextFonts" package, a small collection of old-style, greek, serif typefaces. Perhaps we should package them all together going forward and obsolete gdouros-alexander-fonts by providing a gdouros-textfonts-fonts collective package.

Comment 1 Alexander Ploumistos 2015-04-14 22:33:47 UTC
Updated files, without doc sub-package:

https://alexpl.fedorapeople.org/packages/fonts/gdouros/gdouros-alexander-fonts/gdouros-alexander-fonts.spec

https://alexpl.fedorapeople.org/packages/fonts/gdouros/gdouros-alexander-fonts/gdouros-alexander-fonts-5.01-2.fc21.src.rpm

There was a version-less update on 04/04, I have included the newest sources.

Comment 2 Parag AN(पराग) 2015-04-30 08:48:40 UTC
Review:

+ mock build is successful for F23 (x86_64)

+ rpmlint on generated rpms gave output
2 packages and 0 specfiles checked; 0 errors, 0 warnings.
 
+ Source verified with upstream as (sha256sum)
srpm Source0: 991ddddf0801d0d37b956f1de386ad6b054eda84a77aa683ef99c3e222bdd26b
upstream Source0 : 991ddddf0801d0d37b956f1de386ad6b054eda84a77aa683ef99c3e222bdd26b
srpm Source1 : 4f859cf23497d7dbdab544ba75f3eb88e3782f76738992215a9ec44e21b1ef34
upstream Source1 : 4f859cf23497d7dbdab544ba75f3eb88e3782f76738992215a9ec44e21b1ef34

+ License is "Public Domain" as per given on upstream website "Fonts and documents in this site are not pieces of property or merchandise items; they carry no trademark, copyright, license or other market tags; they are free for any use". So no license text is included in font file or any text file

+ follows fonts packaging guidelines.

+ fontconfig file is present at priority 65.

+ Appdata metainfo file is present.

Suggestions:
1) cp commands should be used as "cp -p" to preserve timestamp of upstream files being installed on the system

2) Follow https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:NamingGuidelines#Pre-Release_packages with following changes

%global checkout 20150430

Release:        0.2.%{checkout}%{?dist}

also add changelog that uses 5.01-0.2.20150430

Comment 4 Parag AN(पराग) 2015-05-02 06:25:37 UTC
The updated srpm in comment#3 looks good now.

Package APPROVED.

You want to submit here package change request to own this package. See https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Package_SCM_admin_requests#Package_Change_Requests_for_existing_packages

Comment 5 Alexander Ploumistos 2015-05-02 11:28:03 UTC
Package Change Request
======================
Package Name: gdouros-alexander-fonts
Branches: f20 f21 f22 master
Owners: alexpl
InitialCC: fonts-sig

Comment 6 Gwyn Ciesla 2015-05-03 21:52:12 UTC
Complete.

Comment 7 Fedora Update System 2015-05-04 13:21:13 UTC
gdouros-alexander-fonts-5.01-0.2.20150430.fc22 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 22.
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/gdouros-alexander-fonts-5.01-0.2.20150430.fc22

Comment 8 Fedora Update System 2015-05-08 07:29:50 UTC
Package gdouros-alexander-fonts-5.01-0.2.20150430.fc22:
* should fix your issue,
* was pushed to the Fedora 22 testing repository,
* should be available at your local mirror within two days.
Update it with:
# su -c 'yum update --enablerepo=updates-testing gdouros-alexander-fonts-5.01-0.2.20150430.fc22'
as soon as you are able to.
Please go to the following url:
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2015-7621/gdouros-alexander-fonts-5.01-0.2.20150430.fc22
then log in and leave karma (feedback).

Comment 9 Fedora Update System 2015-05-11 19:04:59 UTC
gdouros-alexander-fonts-5.01-0.2.20150430.fc22 has been pushed to the Fedora 22 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.


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