Re: RFS: urw-garamond -- scalable PostScript font from the Garamond family

2006-11-05 Thread Rogério Brito
Hi, Ralf and Kevin. On Nov 04 2006, Ralf Stubner wrote: > On Fri, Nov 03, 2006 at 19:27 -0300, Rogério Brito wrote: > > Ralf, since we had almost 6 months after your sent your e-mail to > > the debian-mentors list and you mentioned that you sent an e-mail to > > Walter before that, would it be pos

Re: RFS: urw-garamond -- scalable PostScript font from the Garamond family

2006-11-04 Thread Ralf Stubner
On Fri, Nov 03, 2006 at 19:27 -0300, Rogério Brito wrote: > Ralf, since we had almost 6 months after your sent your e-mail to the > debian-mentors list and you mentioned that you sent an e-mail to Walter > before that, would it be possible to ask him again about the status of > the fonts? Done.

Re: RFS: urw-garamond -- scalable PostScript font from the Garamond family

2006-11-03 Thread Rogério Brito
Hi, Ralf, Kevin et al. On Aug 01 2006, Ralf Stubner wrote: > On Tue, Aug 01, 2006 at 01:53 +0200, Florent Rougon wrote: > > This must be fixed upstream. Upstream is alive, > > Debian-aware and friendly (hi, Ralf!)[2], so this should be doable. > [...] > > [2] Walter Schmidt's cooperation is also

Re: RFS: urw-garamond -- scalable PostScript font from the Garamond family

2006-08-01 Thread Ralf Stubner
On Tue, Aug 01, 2006 at 01:53 +0200, Florent Rougon wrote: > This must be fixed upstream. Upstream is alive, > Debian-aware and friendly (hi, Ralf!)[2], so this should be doable. [...] > [2] Walter Schmidt's cooperation is also probably needed for a new > release, but I don't think it's a p

Re: RFS: urw-garamond -- scalable PostScript font from the Garamond family

2006-08-01 Thread Kevin Bube
Florent Rougon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Hi, > Not in non-free, not on mentors.debian.net, nowhere. Basically, IIRC, > the license requires prominent notice in every file when changes are > made to the fonts[1] stating at least the date and author of the > changes. This clause of the license wa

Re: RFS: urw-garamond -- scalable PostScript font from the Garamond family

2006-08-01 Thread Frank Küster
Neil Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It could be OK in non-free but is that what you really want? Obviously you neither read the original RFS, nor the reminder posted this Sunday: Both stated clearly that it's targetted at non-free. Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectro

Re: RFS: urw-garamond -- scalable PostScript font from the Garamond family

2006-07-31 Thread Rogério Brito
Hi, Neil. On Jul 31 2006, Neil Williams wrote: > After only a v.quick look, Aladdin is the problem: (...) > It could be OK in non-free but is that what you really want? I'm not the original poster, but, as a user, I would really want to have it available, even if it "taints" my system (being draw

Re: RFS: urw-garamond -- scalable PostScript font from the Garamond family

2006-07-31 Thread Florent Rougon
Hi, Rogério Brito <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I just read the copyright file and I thought that it would be > distributable. Are there any conflicts in what is written there? I pointed out the problems I saw in the initial thread about this RFS. Please check the debian-mentors archives. > Ple

Re: RFS: urw-garamond -- scalable PostScript font from the Garamond family

2006-07-31 Thread Neil Williams
Rogério Brito wrote: > Hi, Florent. > > On Jul 31 2006, Florent Rougon wrote: >> Rogério Brito <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> I would love to see your package uploaded to Debian and I have seen >>> that the latest version you published is both lintian and linda >>> clean. >> This is all very nice,

Re: RFS: urw-garamond -- scalable PostScript font from the Garamond family

2006-07-31 Thread Rogério Brito
Hi, Florent. On Jul 31 2006, Florent Rougon wrote: > Rogério Brito <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I would love to see your package uploaded to Debian and I have seen > > that the latest version you published is both lintian and linda > > clean. > > This is all very nice, but last time I checked,

Re: RFS: urw-garamond -- scalable PostScript font from the Garamond family

2006-07-30 Thread Florent Rougon
Rogério Brito <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have been using your package for some time right now and it seems to > work fine. > > I would love to see your package uploaded to Debian and I have seen that > the latest version you published is both lintian and linda clean. This is all very nice, bu

Re: RFS: urw-garamond -- scalable PostScript font from the Garamond family

2006-07-30 Thread Rogério Brito
Hi, Kevin and other DD's. On May 16 2006, Kevin Bube wrote: > I am looking for a sponsor for the urw-garamond package (ITP #367223). > It builds cleanly with debuild and installs and works with unstable. > This is my first attempt for a Debian package so comments are very > welcome. I have been u

Re: RFS: urw-garamond -- scalable PostScript font from the Garamond family

2006-06-12 Thread Rogério Brito
Hi, Kevin. On Jun 12 2006, Kevin Bube wrote: > Rogério Brito <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Oh, BTW, would it be a bad thing to put a symlink from > > /usr/share/texmf/doc/fonts/urw/garamond.txt into the > > /usr/share/doc/urw-garamond-no8 directory? > > Good point, thanks for the suggestion. I

Re: RFS: urw-garamond -- scalable PostScript font from the Garamond family

2006-06-12 Thread Kevin Bube
Rogério Brito <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Hi Rogério, > Oh, BTW, would it be a bad thing to put a symlink from > /usr/share/texmf/doc/fonts/urw/garamond.txt into the > /usr/share/doc/urw-garamond-no8 directory? Good point, thanks for the suggestion. I will do it in the next upload. Regards, Ke

Re: RFS: urw-garamond -- scalable PostScript font from the Garamond family

2006-06-04 Thread Rogério Brito
Hi, Kevin. On May 22 2006, Kevin Bube wrote: > I will see if I can do a separate package for testing. No need to spend your time now doing a separate package for testing: xorg 7 has already migrated into etch. OTOH, having it not depending on xorg 7 may make things easier for those who want to u

RFS: urw-garamond-no8 (was: RFS: urw-garamond -- scalable PostScript font from the Garamond family)

2006-06-01 Thread Kevin Bube
Florent Rougon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Hi Florent, I renamed the package to urw-garamond-no8 and uploaded the new version to http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/non-free/u/urw-garamond-no8/. I hope I have addresse all of your comments satisfactoryly. > And now, for some other comments (tho

Re: RFS: urw-garamond -- scalable PostScript font from the Garamond family

2006-05-29 Thread Florent Rougon
Hi, Kevin Bube <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The defoma-hints and scale files are indeed quite tricky. I modified the > scales file by hand as the font itself declares all shapes as medium, so > fontscale duplictes all fonts. I will reread the docs and rework the > defoma-hints. OK. BTW, since th

Re: RFS: urw-garamond -- scalable PostScript font from the Garamond family

2006-05-29 Thread Kevin Bube
Thanks Florent and Ralf for all your comments. I will try to address your concerns hopefully this week and upload a new version to mentors.debian.net. The defoma-hints and scale files are indeed quite tricky. I modified the scales file by hand as the font itself declares all shapes as medium, so f

Re: RFS: urw-garamond -- scalable PostScript font from the Garamond family

2006-05-27 Thread Florent Rougon
Hi, Ralf Stubner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have valid E-Mail addresses that do not contain my surname. ;-) Sure, but the license says you have to indicate your name *and* email address. You can't hide. :) > However, it was indeed an oversight to not mark the changed file > properly as requ

Re: RFS: urw-garamond -- scalable PostScript font from the Garamond family

2006-05-27 Thread Ralf Stubner
Hi, On Fri, May 26, 2006 at 19:29 +0200, Florent Rougon wrote: % > AFAICT from Walter Schmidt's README.garamond, one should find Ralf > Stubner's traces in some .pfb files (and I think also in the .pfm and > *maybe* also in some .afm files). I cannot find such traces. But: > > % for f in *.pfb;

Re: RFS: urw-garamond -- scalable PostScript font from the Garamond family

2006-05-26 Thread Russ Allbery
Florent Rougon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 15. The build will fail whenever the expansion of "$(CURDIR)" contains > spaces. You should use double quotes at several places. Hm, that's an interesting comment -- many, many, many packages have this problem, including I think all of mine. My ge

Re: RFS: urw-garamond -- scalable PostScript font from the Garamond family

2006-05-26 Thread Florent Rougon
Hi, Kevin Bube <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi mentors, > > I am looking for a sponsor for the urw-garamond package (ITP #367223). > It builds cleanly with debuild and installs and works with > unstable. This is my first attempt for a Debian package so comments are > very welcome. Your package i

Re: RFS: urw-garamond -- scalable PostScript font from the Garamond family

2006-05-22 Thread Kevin Bube
Rogério Brito <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On May 19 2006, Kevin Bube wrote: Hi, > While I do think that xorg 7 is supposed to get into testing for the > etch release, there may be some time before that happens. This means > that your package won't be usable for those that run etch, until that >

Re: RFS: urw-garamond -- scalable PostScript font from the Garamond family

2006-05-19 Thread Rogério Brito
On May 19 2006, Florent Rougon wrote: > Kevin Bube <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Yes, the package is done for unstable. Is X.org 7 expected to go > > into etch? Or is it better to use the X11R6 locations for now? > > No, packaging for X.org was the right decision. I would propose it to be built

Re: RFS: urw-garamond -- scalable PostScript font from the Garamond family

2006-05-19 Thread Rogério Brito
Hi, Kevin. On May 19 2006, Kevin Bube wrote: > Rogério Brito <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Oh, BTW, I read the sources (quite quickly, so I may have missed > > some finer points) and it seems that you strive for compliancy with > > the new xorg 7. > > Yes, the package is done for unstable. Is X

Re: RFS: urw-garamond -- scalable PostScript font from the Garamond family

2006-05-19 Thread Florent Rougon
Kevin Bube <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yes, the package is done for unstable. Is X.org 7 expected to go into > etch? Or is it better to use the X11R6 locations for now? No, packaging for X.org was the right decision. I'll try to have a look at your package one of these days, but probably not th

Re: RFS: urw-garamond -- scalable PostScript font from the Garamond family

2006-05-19 Thread Kevin Bube
Rogério Brito <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On May 18 2006, Rogério Brito wrote: >> On May 16 2006, Kevin Bube wrote: Hi, >>> I am looking for a sponsor for the urw-garamond package (ITP #367223). > (..) >> I'd love to have a Garamond-like font available for my texts. > > Oh, BTW, I read the sour

Re: RFS: urw-garamond -- scalable PostScript font from the Garamond family

2006-05-18 Thread Rogério Brito
On May 18 2006, Rogério Brito wrote: > On May 16 2006, Kevin Bube wrote: > > I am looking for a sponsor for the urw-garamond package (ITP #367223). (..) > I'd love to have a Garamond-like font available for my texts. Oh, BTW, I read the sources (quite quickly, so I may have missed some finer point

Re: RFS: urw-garamond -- scalable PostScript font from the Garamond family

2006-05-17 Thread Rogério Brito
Hi, Kevin. On May 16 2006, Kevin Bube wrote: > I am looking for a sponsor for the urw-garamond package (ITP #367223). I am not a DD, so, I can't do anything regarding sponsoring your package, but I can only say that if this one enters Debian, then I will make one exception on my otherwise complet

RFS: urw-garamond -- scalable PostScript font from the Garamond family

2006-05-16 Thread Kevin Bube
Hi mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for the urw-garamond package (ITP #367223). It builds cleanly with debuild and installs and works with unstable. This is my first attempt for a Debian package so comments are very welcome. The package can be downloaded from http://mentors.debian.net/debian/p