[Bug 456527] Review Request: gentium-basic-fonts - Gentium Basic Font Family

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Summary: Review Request: gentium-basic-fonts -  Gentium Basic Font Family


https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=456527


rbhalera at redhat.com changed:

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------- Additional Comments From rbhalera at redhat.com  2008-07-28 06:41 EST -------
(In reply to comment #1)
> I'll start the review process now but since I'll be unavailable till september
> in a few days someone else will probably have to finish it (or you'll have to
> wait or be very reactive)

Thanks.

> 
> 2. Gentium Basic is OFL, not GPL
>

Oops. My fault.
 

>
http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/render_download.php?site_id=nrsi&format=file&media_id=GentiumBasic_110_diff&filename=ttf-sil-gentium-basic_1.1.diff.gz
> 
> 8. Since the font is effectively a limited Gentium with more faces, you need to
> teach fontconfig to substitute it to Gentium (and the Gentium packager will need
> to do it the other way). Look how it's done for dejavu and dejavu lgc, that's
> just a little fontconfig file to add

I am little unsure about what to substitute for faces. The families are
generically serif for all the fonts in this package.


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