TeX Live 2008 available for testing

Jindrich Novy jnovy at redhat.com
Sat Jun 27 23:15:21 UTC 2009


On Sat, Jun 27, 2009 at 08:10:36PM +0200, Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
> Le samedi 27 juin 2009 à 14:41 +0200, Jindrich Novy a écrit :
> 
> > TeX Live 2008 is now packaged and available for testing. It is not in
> > Fedora yet because it requires reviews of couple of packages. But you
> > can test it before it happens.
> 
> None of your font packages follow Fedora fonts packaging guidelines.
> They won't pass review or if they do slip through review they'll add
> hundreds of lines to repo audit results and we'll have to open scores of
> bugs.
> 
> Please read
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:FontsPolicy
> 
> and make your packaging respect it. Just because a truetype or type1 is
> installed through TEX does not change its essential fontness. Other
> packagers have created guidelines-compliant tex font packages monthes
> ago.
> 

Yup, I will have a look into the guidelines and try to adapt the
font packages to be in agree with the guidelines. I planned that as
the second step after successful packaging.

Jindrich

> -- 
> Nicolas Mailhot



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