Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 398781
Review Request: gfs-complutum-fonts - GFS Complutum Greek font
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:12:24 EST
Spec URL: http://nim.fedorapeople.org/gfs-complutum-fonts.spec SRPM URL: http://nim.fedorapeople.org/gfs-complutum-fonts-20070413-1.fc9.src.rpm Description: The ancient Greek alphabet evolved during the millenium of the Byzantine era from majuscule to minuscule form and gradually incorporated a wide array of ligatures, flourishes and other decorative nuances which defined its extravagant cursive character. Until the late 15th century, typographers who had to deal with Greek text avoided emulating this complicated hand; instead they would use only the twenty four letters of the alphabet separately, often without accents and other diacritics. A celebrated example is the type cut and cast for the typesetting of the New Testament in the so-called Complutensian Polyglot Bible (1512), edited by the Greek scholar, Demetrios Doukas. The type was cut by Arnaldo Guillén de Brocar and the whole edition was a commision by cardinal Francisco Ximénez, in the University of Alcalá (Complutum), Spain. It is one of the best and most representative models of this early tradition in Greek typography which was revived in the early 20th century by the eminent bibliographer of the British Library, Richard Proctor. A font named Otter Greek was cut in 1903 and a book was printed using the new type. The original type had no capitals so Proctor added his own, which were rather large and ill-fitted. The early death of Proctor, the big size of the font and the different aesthetic notions of the time were the reasons that Otter Greek was destined to oblivion, as a curiosity. Greek Font Society incorporated Brocar's famous and distinctive type in the commemorative edition of Pindar's Odes for the Athens Olympics (2004) and the type with a new set of capitals, revived digitaly by George D. Matthiopoulos, is now available for general use.
correct SRPM I guess is http://nim.fedorapeople.org/gfs-complutum-fonts-20070413-2.fc9.src.rpm Also, rpmlint reports gfs-complutum-fonts.noarch: E: description-line-too-long time were the reasons that Otter Greek was destined to oblivion, as a curiosity. Your description lines must not exceed 79 characters. If a line is exceeding this number, cut it to fit in two lines. gfs-complutum-fonts.noarch: W: no-version-in-last-changelog The last changelog entry doesn't contain a version. Please insert the version that is coherent with the version of the package and rebuild it.
(In reply to comment #1) > correct SRPM I guess is > http://nim.fedorapeople.org/gfs-complutum-fonts-20070413-2.fc9.src.rpm > > Also, rpmlint reports > > gfs-complutum-fonts.noarch: E: description-line-too-long time were the reasons > that Otter Greek was destined to oblivion, as a curiosity. > Your description lines must not exceed 79 characters. If a line is exceeding > this number, cut it to fit in two lines. The lines have been resized using the standard "fold" tool. So they are all 80 column max. rpmlint targets a non-standard terminal width, 79 column and I don't believe this width is actually in use anywhere or that any terminal user will actually be inconvenienced if we use the full 80 column. If you really insist I may resize the text but that seems a waste of time to me. > gfs-complutum-fonts.noarch: W: no-version-in-last-changelog > The last changelog entry doesn't contain a version. Please insert the > version that is coherent with the version of the package and rebuild it. rpmlint wants to force you to put the version at the end of the first changelog line, however the official approved Fedora changelog format list includes a style where the version is not on this line (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Guidelines#Changelogs, 3rd style) so rpmlint's warning is bogus
I prefer you to fix rpmlint error description-line-too-long. Reason, If this is bogus message then we should have already removed it from rpmlint tool itself but as rpmlint is made to report it as error, good to fix this.
Updated version posted at the usual place to cut lines at 79 columns.
I agree it was big work for you to ask to fix small issue but still I prefer to follow what rpmlint says till rpmlint tool gives it as Error and not Warning.
Packaging looks ok. APPROVED.
rpmlint is wrong and does no know how to count UTF-8 properly. I actually cheched the line it tags manually - it's less than 79 columns in UTF-8, which is our default encoding. New Package CVS Request ======================= Package Name: gfs-complutum-fonts Short Description: GFS Complutum Greek font Owners: nicolas.mailhot@laposte.net Branches: F-7, F-8, devel InitialCC: fedora-fonts-bugs-list@redhat.com Cvsextras Commits: Yes
cvs done.