[Bug 253163] Review Request: sazanami-fonts - Sazanami Japanese TrueType fonts

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Summary: Review Request: sazanami-fonts - Sazanami Japanese TrueType fonts


https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=253163





------- Additional Comments From tagoh at redhat.com  2007-08-23 05:52 EST -------
(In reply to comment #2)
> Thanks.
> 
> Just a few initial comments/questions:
> 
> It would probably be good to add a comment explaining how and why
> the tarball was rolled with a reference to bug 196433.
> 
> Eventually it would be nice if it could be built from source.

Well, upstream only puts the binary, ttf files. the source code (almost is a
common lisp code) is only available on CVS though, it quite depends on the env
it seems and isn't supposed to be built usually by users.

> I wonder if it would be useful at all or make sense to consider subpackaging
> the gothic and mincho fonts?  (Anyway that could also easily be done later
> if it is useful since they are in the same tarball anyway.)

It could be. I'm not sure how much it's useful. but yeah I can.

> rpmlint on the binary package gives:
> 
> W: sazanami-fonts symlink-should-be-relative /etc/X11/fontpath.d/sazanami-fonts
> /usr/share/fonts/sazanami-fonts

Hmm, I'm not sure about it. there were some discussions but I don't see any
conclusions at the mailing list that started Threads from:
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-maintainers/2007-July/msg00444.html
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-maintainers/2007-August/msg00096.html

nor any updates at the wiki:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/FeatureNoMoreXFS

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