Re: Renaming font packages

At Thu, 19 Jan 2012 01:13:23 +0900,
Fuminobu TAKEYAMA wrote:
> 
> 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?

Done.

> I will keep updating these and other fonts packages as before.

Thanks!


Takashi

> 
> 
> 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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