Bug 477370 - Please convert to new font packaging guidelines
Summary: Please convert to new font packaging guidelines
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Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE
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Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: blender
Version: rawhide
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
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Assignee: Jochen Schmitt
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks: F11-new-font-rules
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Reported: 2008-12-21 00:24 UTC by Nicolas Mailhot
Modified: 2009-01-11 21:26 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2009-01-11 21:26:16 UTC
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Description Nicolas Mailhot 2008-12-21 00:24:22 UTC
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 the 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.                                                                                                                                                             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 make 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 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

Comment 1 Nicolas Mailhot 2008-12-21 00:55:07 UTC
[Since the bot made a mess of the text here it is again in properly indented form.]

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_packagehttp://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Simple_fonts_spec_templatehttp://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

Comment 2 Jochen Schmitt 2009-01-05 20:02:35 UTC
Because the font file which was detected by your bot is a hidden file (dot file) it makes not sense to create a seperate subpackage for the fonts.

Comment 3 Nicolas Mailhot 2009-01-05 20:28:55 UTC
Hidden or not that does not change one bit the licensing considerations that made FPC and FESCO adopt the aforementioned guidelines

Please adapt your package to them

Comment 4 Jochen Schmitt 2009-01-06 19:30:13 UTC
Should be fixed on blender-2.49a-9.

Comment 5 Nicolas Mailhot 2009-01-06 20:14:40 UTC
Actually, opening the blender ttf in the gnome font previewer (or in fontforge if you prefer) shows it is a very old copy of Dejavu Sans (2.8, rawhide is at 2.28), so it's much better to add a dep on dejavu-fonts-sans and symlink the font in blender from here

Comment 6 Nicolas Mailhot 2009-01-06 20:15:33 UTC
(of course you should also ask upstream to add fontconfig support to blender so it does not need a private font at all)

Comment 7 Nicolas Mailhot 2009-01-11 15:19:12 UTC
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)

Comment 8 Jochen Schmitt 2009-01-11 21:26:16 UTC
Thank you for your help. I have now created a symlink to dajavu-sams in felder-2.48a-10, so I will close this bug now.


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