Dear packager, At 20091122T202901Z, your “perl-Tk” package failed one or more of the tests I was performing on the “fedora-devel” repository located at: http://koji.fedoraproject.org/static-repos/dist-f13-build-current/x86_64/ There are three different reasons that may cause this message: 1. your package is including one or more font files, but not packaging them properly; 2. your package is including one or more font files, and I've found issues in some of them; 3. your package is not shipping any font file, but the way it accesses fonts in other packages is not satisfying. To stop receiving this message, you need to: 1. drop the font files or fix their packaging; 2. relay the fonts issues to the fonts upstream to get them revised; 3. work with the code upstream to improve the way it accesses font files (usually by making it use fontconfig through a higher-level text library such as pango, pango-cairo, harfbuzz, or QT) You can self-check your packages at any time by: 1. installing createrepo and fontpackages-tools: # yum install createrepo fontpackages-tools 2. putting your packages and any font package they depends on in a test directory 3. indexing this directory with createrepo: $ createrepo path-to-test-directory 4. running repo-font-audit: $ repo-font-audit test file://absolute-path-to-test-directory A summary of the issues I detected is appended here. For your convenience a more comprehensive analysis is also attached to this message. Errors, warnings and suggestions: P# t14 1 1 Total 1 P# Maintainer SRPM RPM EVR Arch 1 awjb perl-Tk perl-Tk 0:804.028-10.fc12 x86_64 Test explanation: t14. Warning: core fonts use ☛ Upstream task This package accesses fonts through the X11 Core protocol. Numerous long-standing problems with this mode of access, and a design that could not scale to modern font needs lead the (then XFree86) team to deprecate it in favour of fontconfig (née xft). Adoption was quick and by 2003 it was clear fontconfig was the new standard¹. Nowadays fontconfig is widely used², including on non Linux/Unix platforms. While X11 Core access has been kept on life-support this font system is not actively maintained today. The font library it depends on is slowly shrinking, as it was created in a period of different legal and technical requirements², and there is no one to update the font files when a problem is found³. Therefore, projects are advised to migrate before the situation reaches a critical stage. Fontconfig has been our default font system for a long time, and accessing fonts by other means will cause behaviour inconsistencies and many other problems (since fontconfig can be used to change the behaviour of a font). If an application can not use fontconfig today this is a serious bug that should be reported to the application upstream. Please ask it to add fontconfig support to their code (usually, via a higher-level library such as pango-cairo). ¹ http://xfree86.org/pipermail/forum/2003-March/000799.html ² Screen technology changed, encoding standard (Unicode) changed, legal reviews became more comprehensive, etc. ³ Leaving culling the only solution. Please take the appropriate measures to fix the “perl-Tk” package. I will warn you again if it is still necessary next time I am ran. This report was generated by the repo-font-audit command from: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/fontpackages Please post questions, suggestions, patches or bug reports to: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-fonts-list (subscription required) Your friendly QA robot, -- repo-font-audit
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