Re: Takao Fonts - community developed derivatives of IPA Fonts - are available.

At Tue, 16 Feb 2010 23:55:23 +0900,
Satoru Matsumoto wrote:
> 
> Takao Fonts Maintainers, which is mainly made up of the members of
> Ubuntu Japanese Team, has recently released Takao Fonts, that are
> community developed derivatives of IPA Fonts (which are default fonts
> for Japanese in openSUSE distribution ATM).
> 
> https://launchpad.net/takao-fonts
> 
> Although IPA Fonts are high quality Japanese outline fonts, they are
> released under the IPA Font license which allow us to modify and
> redistribute them on the condition of avoiding to use the word "IPA" for
> derivatives' name and following some other restrictions. This
> restriction means that only IPA can modify and release the IPA Fonts and
> 3rd party communities are prohibited to apply any patch and release them
> with the name "IPA Font" even if we found bugs on them.
> 
> Takao Fonts Maintainers aim to avoid this problem by changing the fonts
> names.
> 
> I think Takao Fonts can be alternatives to IPA Fonts and have curiously
> built packages of these fonts on my home project in OBS, using examples
> from IPAPGothic.spec file in openSUSE:Factory repo.
> https://build.opensuse.org/package/show?package=takeo-fonts&project=home%3AHeliosReds

The IPA font spec file is a bit outdate.  You can clean up the spec
file for new packages a bit.  Namely,

 - Recent packages tend to omit "Authors" list in the package
   description
 - The conversion of *.txt via dos2unix is unlikely needed for this
   package
 - Better to use %{version} to Sources and %setup macro as much as
   possible

Otherwise looks fine to me.
Feel free to submit first to M17N repo.  Then we can adjust
fonts-config to put this as a preferred font, then eventually submit
to openSUSE 11.3.

There are a few places where IPA fonts are used statically, e.g. in
the installation.  These can be fixed once after this new font is
merged.


Thanks!

Takashi
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