Friday, May 02, 2008

Including smc-fonts package(Malayalam fonts) in Fedora 9.

I really found it useful to write here since i think its nice to see many Malayalam typefaces/fonts in Fedora 9 now. so now Malayalam users not need to install these fonts manually they can easily just do

yum install smc-fonts-*

they will get these fonts in Fedora 9

Its really worth to write here, since it was really difficult adding this package in Fedora, since there was lots of issue in this package as per (FPG)Fedora packaging guideline. and i am happy that finally i done required adjustments and finally it is in Fedora 9.

Issues:
1) There was license inside fonts but not easily viewable, person should have fontforge or any other font tool to actually see that license

2) Then i got detached Licensed text from upstream in this tar ball but it not solved the problem
since this package consist fonts from different upstream project all with different License.
and as per FPG we cant make a single package having different license inside it.

3) Its really nice, alternative options is given there for almost all the situation in FPG, i studied all these things from the expertise, and finally added sub packaging support in smc-fonts and then kept it for review. Thanks to FPG for good documentation.

4) thanks to Rahul Bhalerao who actually done review for this very complex packaging example, since it was not regular package it was package with different license and different upstream versions.

you can see bug for more details
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=433584

as per review suggestions i modified it and finally Jens Peterson gave cvs access and now smc-fonts is in Fedora 9.
cheers for that !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Presently i am fedora downstream maintainer of smc-fonts package it includes fonts "meera, rachana, raghumalayalam, dyuthi and suruma"

if you found any bug in these fonts feel free to file it at https://bugzilla.redhat.com/enter_bug.cgi?product=Fedora

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