[Bug 477408] Please convert to new font packaging guidelines

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--- Comment #6 from Nicolas Mailhot <nicolas.mailhot at laposte.net>  2009-01-25 06:13:54 EDT ---
(In reply to comment #5)

> - Obsoletes/Provides are not finished. In the 'base' pkg you can see my
> proposal, which is somewhat bogus :). I believe there's on Fedora wiki some
> guide on O/P labels but I failed to find it.

Provides for the old font names are probably unecessary

If each new font subpackage corresponds exactly to one or several old
(sub)packages, you only need to
Orsolete: oldpackagename < thisversion-thisrelease

If the mapping is less obvious look at the compat packages in dejavu for
example

> - The -commons sub-package seems to be useless, nothing but *.ttf's are
> shipped.

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Shipping_fonts_in_Fedora_(FAQ)#What.27s_the_point_of_the_common_subpackage.3F

> - Fontconfig support is missing, but not a hard requirement.

It's not but it help browsers at least. Upstream should be able to give you the
information needed to fill them in (to what CSS category each font belongs,
etc)

> Eventually, you'll find other problems - please, share them, then we'll what
> can be done :).

Don't hesitate to ping me on irc or on the fonts list if you have specific
problems. I'll probably eventually review the changes in this package as I did
with others, but I have a long review queue nowadays.

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