On 2011/11/09 00:51, Tim van der Molen wrote:
> On Tue, 08 Nov 2011 23:41:28 +0100, Stuart Henderson wrote:
> > On 2011-11-08, Antti Harri <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > On Tuesday 08 November 2011 13:15:45 David Coppa wrote:
> > >> On Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 12:07 PM, Dmitrij D. Czarkoff 
> > >> <[email protected]> 
> > > wrote:
> > >> > P.S.: uppercases in COMMENT are also OK for me, it's a name.
> > >>
> > >> I meant:
> > >>
> > >> Ubuntu Font Family -> Ubuntu font family
> > >
> > > The authors of the software use Ubuntu Font Family.
> > >
> > 
> > COMMENT is for a description of the package, not the name. Something
> > like 'multilingual sans-serif TrueType fonts for screen use' would be
> > a lot more descriptive.
> 
> I think the name happens to be a very accurate description. The
> description you suggest is less so, since the package has monospaced
> fonts as well and there is no reason not to use the fonts on paper.
> 
> I don't have strong feelings about the COMMENT, however, nor the time to
> discuss it further, so, please, change it to whatever you consider more
> descriptive.

The name is already in PKGNAME, and since every place I can think of where
COMMENT is displayed either the PKGNAME or directory name is displayed next
it, there's not a lot of point in repeating the same information when we
can use the space to add to it. We don't have these, for example, even
though the names are quite well known:

firefox-7.0.1p0     Firefox
libreoffice-3.4.3.2v0 LibreOffice

- instead we say a little about what they do.

I was basing my COMMENT on the details in DESCR and a few bits from the
wikipedia article, though looking at the current fonts I won't go quite as
far as multilingual until they add a few more charsets. So I'll probably
go with this unless someone has a better idea:

unicode sans-serif/monospace TrueType fonts from Ubuntu

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