Bug 2455091 - Review Request: rust-read-fonts - Reading OpenType font files
Summary: Review Request: rust-read-fonts - Reading OpenType font files
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Status: ASSIGNED
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: Package Review
Version: rawhide
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
unspecified
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Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Ben Beasley
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
URL: https://crates.io/crates/read-fonts
Whiteboard:
Depends On: 2461078
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2026-04-04 16:17 UTC by Parag Nemade
Modified: 2026-04-23 09:57 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Description Parag Nemade 2026-04-04 16:17:28 UTC
Spec URL: https://pnemade.fedorapeople.org/rust-read-fonts.spec
SRPM URL: https://pnemade.fedorapeople.org/rust-read-fonts-0.38.0-1.fc44.src.rpm
Upstream URL: https://crates.io/crates/read-fonts

Description:
Reading OpenType font files.

Fedora Account System Username: pnemade

Comment 1 Parag Nemade 2026-04-04 16:17:32 UTC
This package built on koji:  https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=144037250

Comment 2 Ben Beasley 2026-04-21 20:45:06 UTC
Package Review
==============

Legend:
[x] = Pass, [!] = Fail, [-] = Not applicable, [?] = Not evaluated

The spec file is generated by rust2rpm, simplifying the review.

The submission is slightly outdated compared to upstream; 0.38.0, where
upstream is at 0.39.1. Unless you strictly require version 0.38 as a dependency
for something you are planning to package, consider updating to the current
release.

When you update to 0.39 (now or later), be aware of the new agl feature
(“Support for mapping glyph names <-> unicode via the Adobe glyph list”):
https://diff.rs/read-fonts/0.38.0/0.39.1/Cargo.toml.orig. This feature relies
on “code” (really, just a data table in Rust source form,
data/generated/generated_agl.rs) generated from data/glyphlist.xt, the “Adobe
Glyph List,” which is licensed BSD-3-Clause. This would seem to require the
license expression in Cargo.toml to be patched from “MIT OR Apache-2.0” to
“(MIT OR Apache-2.0) AND BSD-3-Clause”.

You might consider hiding experimental features that do not respect SemVer, at
least until and unless something packaged actually requires them. In
rust2rpm.toml, this could look something like:

  [features]
  hide = [
      # Experimental features that don’t promise to respect SemVer
      "experimental_traverse",
      "ift",
      "spec_next",
  ]

See the cautions about using features.hide vs. patching out features in the
rust2rpm.toml man page.

The codegen_test and scaler_test features don’t look like they are useful for
external use, although there’s probably little harm in exposing them as
metapackage.

Please document why the tests are disabled, something like (in rust2rpm.toml):

  [tests]
  run = false
  comments = [
      "Tests requires the font_test_data crate, not packaged",
  ]

I do think it’s reasonable to want to avoid a rust-font_test_data package.  On
the other hand, it seems like it would be easy to package, and I didn’t see any
obvious license issues at a glance, so maybe it’s worth adding it later and
enabling the tests.

Here’s the awkward part. Most of this crate is generated code, and according to
https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/packaging-guidelines/what-can-be-packaged/#pregenerated-code,
“It is required that the original source files from which the code was
generated be included in the source package. Generally these files are part of
the source archive supplied by upstream, but it may be necessary to fetch those
files from an upstream source repository and include them in the source package
as separate Source: entries.” The easiest way to satisfy this is probably to add
an archive of the upstream git repository as an additional source:

  [[package.extra-sources]]
  number = 10
  file = "https://github.com/googlefonts/fontations/archive/read-fonts-v%{version}/fontation-read-fonts-v%{version}.tar.gz"
  comments = [
      "Most of the crate is generated code.",
      "This archive contains the original sources.",
      "We must include these even though we do not use them to build binary RPMs.",
      "https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/packaging-guidelines/what-can-be-packaged/#pregenerated-code",
  ]

I took a quick look through this archive and it seemed like everything had
acceptable licenses, but you should double-check it too.

If you like, you could study the codegen pipeline
(https://github.com/googlefonts/fontations/blob/main/docs/codegen-tour.md,
https://github.com/googlefonts/fontations/blob/main/font-codegen/README.md),
and just make an archive that contains the codegen inputs and codegen
utilities, but it seems like this would be unpleasantly fussy, and the complete
archive is big (~13M) but not *huge*.


Issues:
=======
- Package does not contain duplicates in %files.
  Note: warning: File listed twice: /usr/share/cargo/registry/read-
  fonts-0.38.0/LICENSE-APACHE
  See: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/packaging-
  guidelines/#_duplicate_files

- You might consider hiding features that don’t respect SemVer; see notes
  above.

- If you disable the tests, you should add a comment explaining why; see notes
  above.

- You must include the original source files for pre-generated code; see notes
  above.


===== MUST items =====

Generic:
[x]: Package is licensed with an open-source compatible license and meets
     other legal requirements as defined in the legal section of Packaging
     Guidelines.
[x]: License field in the package spec file matches the actual license.
     Note: Checking patched sources after %prep for licenses. Licenses
     found: "Unknown or generated", "Apache License 2.0", "MIT License".
     170 files have unknown license. Detailed output of licensecheck in
     /home/ben/fedora/review/2455091-rust-read-fonts/licensecheck.txt

     (See notes in the narrative discussion above about BSD-3-Clause portions
     in version 0.39, however.)

[x]: License file installed when any subpackage combination is installed.
[-]: If the package is under multiple licenses, the licensing breakdown
     must be documented in the spec.
[x]: %build honors applicable compiler flags or justifies otherwise.
[x]: Package contains no bundled libraries or specifies bundled libraries
     with Provides: bundled(<libname>) if unbundling is not possible.
[x]: Changelog in prescribed format.
[x]: Sources contain only permissible code or content.
[x]: Development files must be in a -devel package
[x]: Package uses nothing in %doc for runtime.
[x]: Package consistently uses macros (instead of hard-coded directory
     names).
[x]: Package is named according to the Package Naming Guidelines.
[x]: Package does not generate any conflict.
[x]: Package obeys FHS, except libexecdir and /usr/target.
[-]: If the package is a rename of another package, proper Obsoletes and
     Provides are present.
[x]: Requires correct, justified where necessary.
[x]: Spec file is legible and written in American English.
[x]: Package is not known to require an ExcludeArch tag.
[x]: Package complies to the Packaging Guidelines
[x]: Package successfully compiles and builds into binary rpms on at least
     one supported primary architecture.
[x]: Package installs properly.
[x]: Rpmlint is run on all rpms the build produces.
     Note: No rpmlint messages.
[x]: If (and only if) the source package includes the text of the
     license(s) in its own file, then that file, containing the text of the
     license(s) for the package is included in %license.
[x]: The License field must be a valid SPDX expression.
[x]: Package requires other packages for directories it uses.
[x]: Package must own all directories that it creates.
[x]: Package does not own files or directories owned by other packages.
[x]: Package uses either %{buildroot} or $RPM_BUILD_ROOT
[x]: Package does not run rm -rf %{buildroot} (or $RPM_BUILD_ROOT) at the
     beginning of %install.
[x]: Macros in Summary, %description expandable at SRPM build time.
[x]: Dist tag is present.
[x]: Permissions on files are set properly.
[x]: Package must not depend on deprecated() packages.
[x]: Package use %makeinstall only when make install DESTDIR=... doesn't
     work.
[x]: Package is named using only allowed ASCII characters.
[x]: Package does not use a name that already exists.
[x]: Package is not relocatable.
[x]: Sources used to build the package match the upstream source, as
     provided in the spec URL.
[x]: Spec file name must match the spec package %{name}, in the format
     %{name}.spec.
[x]: File names are valid UTF-8.
[x]: Large documentation must go in a -doc subpackage. Large could be size
     (~1MB) or number of files.
     Note: Documentation size is 0 bytes in 0 files.
[x]: Packages must not store files under /srv, /opt or /usr/local

===== SHOULD items =====

Generic:
[-]: If the source package does not include license text(s) as a separate
     file from upstream, the packager SHOULD query upstream to include it.
[x]: Final provides and requires are sane (see attachments).
[?]: Package functions as described.

     The package compiles successfully.

[!]: Latest version is packaged.

     Version 0.39.1 is available.

[x]: Package does not include license text files separate from upstream.
[x]: Patches link to upstream bugs/comments/lists or are otherwise
     justified.
[-]: Sources are verified with gpgverify first in %prep if upstream
     publishes signatures.
     Note: gpgverify is not used.
[x]: Package should compile and build into binary rpms on all supported
     architectures.

     https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=144667602

[!]: %check is present and all tests pass.

     Tests are disabled to avoid packaging the font_test_data crate.
     This is acceptable, but should be documented in the spec file.

[x]: Packages should try to preserve timestamps of original installed
     files.
[x]: Reviewer should test that the package builds in mock.
[x]: Buildroot is not present
[x]: No file requires outside of /etc, /bin, /sbin, /usr/bin, /usr/sbin.
[x]: Packager, Vendor, PreReq, Copyright tags should not be in spec file
[x]: Sources can be downloaded from URI in Source: tag
[x]: SourceX is a working URL.
[x]: Spec use %global instead of %define unless justified.

===== EXTRA items =====

Generic:
[x]: Rpmlint is run on all installed packages.
     Note: No rpmlint messages.
[x]: Spec file according to URL is the same as in SRPM.

fonts:
[!]: Run fc-query on all fonts in package.
     Note: Cannot find fc-query command, install fontconfig package to make
     a comprehensive font review.
     See: url: undefined
[!]: Run repo-font-audit on all fonts in package.
     Note: Cannot find repo-font-audit, install fontpackages-tools package
     to make a comprehensive font review.
     See: url: undefined


Rpmlint
-------
Checking: rust-read-fonts-devel-0.38.0-1.fc45.noarch.rpm
          rust-read-fonts+default-devel-0.38.0-1.fc45.noarch.rpm
          rust-read-fonts+codegen_test-devel-0.38.0-1.fc45.noarch.rpm
          rust-read-fonts+experimental_traverse-devel-0.38.0-1.fc45.noarch.rpm
          rust-read-fonts+ift-devel-0.38.0-1.fc45.noarch.rpm
          rust-read-fonts+libm-devel-0.38.0-1.fc45.noarch.rpm
          rust-read-fonts+scaler_test-devel-0.38.0-1.fc45.noarch.rpm
          rust-read-fonts+serde-devel-0.38.0-1.fc45.noarch.rpm
          rust-read-fonts+spec_next-devel-0.38.0-1.fc45.noarch.rpm
          rust-read-fonts+std-devel-0.38.0-1.fc45.noarch.rpm
          rust-read-fonts-0.38.0-1.fc45.src.rpm
============================ rpmlint session starts ============================
rpmlint: 2.8.0
configuration:
    /usr/lib/python3.14/site-packages/rpmlint/configdefaults.toml
    /etc/xdg/rpmlint/fedora-spdx-licenses.toml
    /etc/xdg/rpmlint/fedora.toml
    /etc/xdg/rpmlint/scoring.toml
    /etc/xdg/rpmlint/users-groups.toml
    /etc/xdg/rpmlint/warn-on-functions.toml
rpmlintrc: [PosixPath('/tmp/tmps711j058')]
checks: 32, packages: 11

 11 packages and 0 specfiles checked; 0 errors, 0 warnings, 62 filtered, 0 badness; has taken 0.4 s 




Rpmlint (installed packages)
----------------------------
============================ rpmlint session starts ============================
rpmlint: 2.9.0
configuration:
    /usr/lib/python3.14/site-packages/rpmlint/configdefaults.toml
    /etc/xdg/rpmlint/fedora-spdx-licenses.toml
    /etc/xdg/rpmlint/fedora.toml
    /etc/xdg/rpmlint/scoring.toml
    /etc/xdg/rpmlint/users-groups.toml
    /etc/xdg/rpmlint/warn-on-functions.toml
checks: 32, packages: 10

 10 packages and 0 specfiles checked; 0 errors, 0 warnings, 57 filtered, 0 badness; has taken 0.1 s 



Source checksums
----------------
https://crates.io/api/v1/crates/read-fonts/0.38.0/download#/read-fonts-0.38.0.crate :
  CHECKSUM(SHA256) this package     : 70eac20eeee8bd51247a0c2f349f657563fffd19d041cd12988cc2801ec2ebef
  CHECKSUM(SHA256) upstream package : 70eac20eeee8bd51247a0c2f349f657563fffd19d041cd12988cc2801ec2ebef


Requires
--------
rust-read-fonts-devel (rpmlib, GLIBC filtered):
    (crate(bytemuck/default) >= 1.13.1 with crate(bytemuck/default) < 2.0.0~)
    (crate(font-types/bytemuck) >= 0.11.1 with crate(font-types/bytemuck) < 0.12.0~)
    (crate(font-types/default) >= 0.11.1 with crate(font-types/default) < 0.12.0~)
    cargo
    rust

rust-read-fonts+default-devel (rpmlib, GLIBC filtered):
    cargo
    crate(read-fonts)
    crate(read-fonts/std)

rust-read-fonts+codegen_test-devel (rpmlib, GLIBC filtered):
    cargo
    crate(read-fonts)

rust-read-fonts+experimental_traverse-devel (rpmlib, GLIBC filtered):
    cargo
    crate(read-fonts)
    crate(read-fonts/std)

rust-read-fonts+ift-devel (rpmlib, GLIBC filtered):
    cargo
    crate(read-fonts)

rust-read-fonts+libm-devel (rpmlib, GLIBC filtered):
    (crate(core_maths/default) >= 0.1.0 with crate(core_maths/default) < 0.2.0~)
    cargo
    crate(read-fonts)

rust-read-fonts+scaler_test-devel (rpmlib, GLIBC filtered):
    cargo
    crate(read-fonts)

rust-read-fonts+serde-devel (rpmlib, GLIBC filtered):
    (crate(font-types/serde) >= 0.11.1 with crate(font-types/serde) < 0.12.0~)
    (crate(serde/default) >= 1.0.0 with crate(serde/default) < 2.0.0~)
    (crate(serde/derive) >= 1.0.0 with crate(serde/derive) < 2.0.0~)
    cargo
    crate(read-fonts)

rust-read-fonts+spec_next-devel (rpmlib, GLIBC filtered):
    cargo
    crate(read-fonts)

rust-read-fonts+std-devel (rpmlib, GLIBC filtered):
    (crate(font-types/std) >= 0.11.1 with crate(font-types/std) < 0.12.0~)
    cargo
    crate(read-fonts)



Provides
--------
rust-read-fonts-devel:
    crate(read-fonts)
    rust-read-fonts-devel

rust-read-fonts+default-devel:
    crate(read-fonts/default)
    rust-read-fonts+default-devel

rust-read-fonts+codegen_test-devel:
    crate(read-fonts/codegen_test)
    rust-read-fonts+codegen_test-devel

rust-read-fonts+experimental_traverse-devel:
    crate(read-fonts/experimental_traverse)
    rust-read-fonts+experimental_traverse-devel

rust-read-fonts+ift-devel:
    crate(read-fonts/ift)
    rust-read-fonts+ift-devel

rust-read-fonts+libm-devel:
    crate(read-fonts/libm)
    rust-read-fonts+libm-devel

rust-read-fonts+scaler_test-devel:
    crate(read-fonts/scaler_test)
    rust-read-fonts+scaler_test-devel

rust-read-fonts+serde-devel:
    crate(read-fonts/serde)
    rust-read-fonts+serde-devel

rust-read-fonts+spec_next-devel:
    crate(read-fonts/spec_next)
    rust-read-fonts+spec_next-devel

rust-read-fonts+std-devel:
    crate(read-fonts/std)
    rust-read-fonts+std-devel



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