Le Jeu 22 août 2013 12:20, Alec Leamas a écrit : > There is a bug for fedora review [1] to add some basic support for font > packages. It shouldn't be that hard, but time is limited. Thank you for looking at font packages in fedora review. > One concern is that font specfiles are hard to parse because of the > %_font_pkg macro. The problem is that it "hides" the %files directive > which is what we use to locate the section (that we have to parse > ourselves instead of using rpm's parser is a long story). > > Now, anything is possible. But according to the discussion in [2], fpc > nowadays seems very firm about that macros should not include any > section parts like %files, so %_font_pkg should most likely not have > been approved as-is today (?) The objection you reference does not apply to the macros in font packages, the way they are written it is not difficult to complete the files sections (for example it is common to add documentation files) By construction many font packages have multiple subpackages with specific files sections and lots of repeated boilerplate. Before the macroization spec files were hard to read, errors common and packagers tried to put font files all over the filesystem where fontconfig could not use them. The macros force everyone to respect Fedora guidelines even if they don't understand the font system. They don't get a choice with file placement and permissions and we do not want to give them this choice. (likewise they get little choice over package naming and FPC wishes are enforced by the macros) Now I won't argue they are perfect, far from that, they were the best compromise that could be found at the time. Please do feel free to propose something better. But better can not be a return to massive boilerplate cut and pasting. Better must keep abstracting all the bits we do not wish font packagers to worry about because choices are locked by fontconfig requirements and FPC decisions. Regards, -- Nicolas Mailhot _______________________________________________ fonts mailing list fonts@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/fonts http://fonts.fedoraproject.org/
