Re: Renaming font packages

Hi M17N:fonts maintainers,

I am sorry for my late response.

I have just submitted two new Japanese fonts packages to M17N:fonts.

Could you add me to the maintainers list?
I will keep updating these and other fonts packages as before.


Fuminobu TAKEYAMA

(2012/01/11 2:34), Takashi Iwai wrote:
> Hi,
>
> recently Thomas Schraitle and I have been working on the renaming of
> font packages in a standard naming scheme.  The discussion is found in
> FATE 313035.  As the result, the Wiki page is created and we started
> converting a few packages.  The detail is found in:
>      http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Packaging_Fonts
>
> Now, we'd like to ask someone volunteering this work together with
> us.
>
> The job is relatively easy.  You'll copy a package from M17N to
> M17N:fonts with a new package name, rename files, modify spec file for
> the renaming procedure appropriately.  The detail is found in the page
> above.
>
> The font list is found in
>      http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Packaging_Fonts:Fontlist
> You can see many packages are still not converted yet.
>
> If anyone is interested, even anyone has any objection to this action,
> let me know.  If you'd like to join, I can assign you to the
> maintainer of M17N:fonts project.
>
> Once when all conversions are done, the packages should be merged to
> FACTORY.  Then we're going to remove the old packages from M17N
> project.
> I believe this is a better way than keeping the old packages forever.
> But if you have other opinion, please speak up.
>
>
> thanks,
>
> Takashi
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