[Bug 462446] Review Request: ttf2pt1 - TrueType to Adobe Type 1 font converter

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--- Comment #12 from Patrice Dumas <pertusus at free.fr>  2008-10-02 18:10:30 EDT ---
(In reply to comment #11)

> I guess I've already invalidated the documentation somewhat by moving the
> README*, FONT* and similar files to defaultdocdir.  The manual pages refers to
> these as /usr/share/ttf2pt1/README etc.  But this feels a bit more invasive.
> 
> Or is it part of packaging to actually rewrite the documentation for the
> package?

It is better for integration, but at some point you can also decide that 
it is not needed and you have better things to do, not to mention that 
it increases complexity. So, your choice.

> > It would be better if convert looked for convert.cfg somewhere
> > else than in pwd.
> 
> Maybe, maybe not.  It describes what "convert" should do, and in that sense has
> some similarities with a Makefile.  There may be several such files, each
> converting different sources.

Reading the sample it looks more like a regular config file.
So a search path in /usr/share/.... then /etc/.... then $HOME/... 
and then the current directory with the latter overriding the 
former would be better. But this is to be done with upstream.

> But in any case, I wouldn't change such a thing in the role of packager, would
> I?  That seems like a discussion to have with upstreams if one want to change
> it.

Indeed.

> Spec URL: ftp://ftp.uddeborg.se/pub/ttf2pt1/ttf2pt1.spec
> SRPM URL: ftp://ftp.uddeborg.se/pub/ttf2pt1/ttf2pt1-3.4.4-5.src.rpm

I think that the 'other' applications should better be installed 
they look generic enough to be of use. However they should certainly
have their name prefixed with ttf2pt1 to avoid polluting the global
namespace with the names that are not very well chosen, and for 
utilities that are not very important. cmpf and dmpf could also
be prefixed, a 4 letter name is not very good, and in any case one 
has to look at te ttf2pt1 documentation to see what tey are useful to, 
and the other utilities are already prefixed.

The  stuff in TeX is not generic enough, in my opinion, to 
be put in the system dirs, leaving it in %doc is right.

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