Hi, I am looking for a sponsor for my package "googlefontdirectory-tools".
My reason for packaging these tools is that they contain several reasonably general scripts which can be useful for most fonts. Current VCS-git version of the package "fonts-play" (I'm not sure this change is big enough to warrant a re-upload) makes use of gfd-tools as a build-dependency, these tools were previously (somewhat excessively) included in fonts-play itself. c.f. http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=pkg-fonts/fonts-play.git;a=summary * Package name : googlefontdirectory-tools Version : 20120111.1-1 Upstream Authors: Dave Crossland : Khaled Hosny * URL : http://code.google.com/p/googlefontdirectory/source/browse/tools/ * License : Apache-2.0 Section : fonts Description: various tools for generating, analysing and manipulating font files This package contains a collection of tools used by the Google Font Directory to work with fonts. . The package includes scripts to: * Generate ttf and otf fonts from sfd source files * Generate sfd source files from ttf fonts * Generate font files with a subset of characters * Generate namelist files * Convert otf elements to ttf equivalents * Auto-set and analyse PREP hinting and hinting tables * Setting GASP tables in font files * Analyse bounding boxes * Compare Unicode points and glyph names Worth noting is that I do not use, nor know how and why to use about half of these features, sfd -> ttf is the only one I'm really familiar with, I'm including the rest since they sound useful :) The package is available at debexpo/mentors: http://mentors.debian.net/package/googlefontdirectory-tools dget -x http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/g/googlefontdirectory-tools/googlefontdirectory-tools_20120111.1-1.dsc Alternatively the source is kept in git at: http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=pkg-fonts/googlefontdirectory-tools.git;a=summary git clone git://git.debian.org/pkg-fonts/googlefontdirectory-tools.git debian/rules has a get-orig-source target which you may want to avoid on a slow connection (the GFD mercurial repo is > 400MB) +++ lintian output +++ P: googlefontdirectory-tools source: unversioned-copyright-format-uri http://dep.debian.net/deps/dep5 # I prefer this until the final URI P: googlefontdirectory-tools: no-upstream-changelog # I don't think there will be, and I don't think piping mercurial log to a file makes sense either N: FontForge scripts are also scripts, they can't help being special. N: O: googlefontdirectory-tools: unusual-interpreter usr/share/googlefontdirectory- tools/tools/bbox/vmet.pe #!/usr/bin/fontforge # I have requested lintian to support fontforge as an interpreter I would be glad if someone uploaded this package for me. Kind regards, -- Martin Erik Werner ("arand") <martinerikwer...@gmail.com>
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