naming scheme for fonts packages?

[Parag N(पराग़)]

Hi,
On 2/28/07, Jens Petersen <petersen at redhat.com> wrote:
> I am currently reviewing a Tibetan font for inclusion in Fedora.
> It is called Tibetan Machine Uni, and we have had a lengthy
> polite discussion on the naming of the package both in and out
> of bugzilla, also with the upstream maintainer.  (The project is hosted
> on SourceForge and GPL fwiw).  The package was submitted as
> tibetan-machine-uni-fonts, so I suggested fonts-tibetan.  However since
> the font is also good for Bhutanese, the submitter and the maintainer
> think fonts-tibetan-dzongkha (bhutanese) would be more appropriate.
 +1. I agree with fonts-tibetan-dzongkha-bhutanese package name.

>
> It occurred to me that we really need some guideline about naming of
> fonts packages.  Most of our international fonts follow the naming
> scheme "fonts-*" where "*" is the generally the English name of the
> language, which makes  the package pretty easy to find.  And the
> remainder are mostly suffixed with "-fonts".  Currently in F7T2 there are:
>
> fonts-ISO8859-2 fonts-KOI8-R fonts-arabic fonts-bengali fonts-chinese
> fonts-gujarati fonts-hebrew fonts-hindi fonts-japanese fonts-kannada
> fonts-korean fonts-malayalam fonts-oriya fonts-punjabi fonts-sinhala
> fonts-tamil fonts-telugu
>
> and:
>
> bitmap-fonts bitstream-vera-fonts dejavu-lgc-fonts ghostscript-fonts
> tetex-fonts urw-fonts xorg-x11-fonts
>
> In Extras the fonts tend to be more alternative/miscellaneous I guess:
>
> VLGothic-fonts artwiz-aleczapka-fonts charis-fonts dejavu-fonts
> doulos-fonts gentium-fonts hunky-fonts linux-libertine-fonts
> mathml-fonts mgopen-fonts terminus-font, and fonts-hebrew-fancy
>
> So perhaps we need to set two naming conventions: using
> "fonts-<language>" for standard international fonts and "<name>-fonts"
> for alternative general fonts?
  +1. Good point.
>
> Of course "fonts-<language>" doesn't quite solve the problem for the
> Tibetan font... ;)  The name fonts-tibetan-script was also brought up,
> and even fonts-bodic.
>
> It would probably be good to add some text about in on
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/NamingGuidelines anyway.
>
  This is now really needed and FESCO should discuss this in tomorrow's meeting.
> Comments?  Opinions?
>
> Jens
>
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