[Bug 1208833] New: Review Request: gdouros-aegyptus-fonts - A font for Egyptian hieroglyphs

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

 



https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1208833

            Bug ID: 1208833
           Summary: Review Request: gdouros-aegyptus-fonts - A font for
                    Egyptian hieroglyphs
           Product: Fedora
           Version: rawhide
         Component: Package Review
          Severity: medium
          Priority: medium
          Assignee: nobody@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
          Reporter: alex.ploumistos@xxxxxxxxx
        QA Contact: extras-qa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
                CC: package-review@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx



Spec URL:
https://alexpl.fedorapeople.org/packages/fonts/gdouros/gdouros-aegyptus-fonts/gdouros-aegyptus-fonts.spec

SRPM URL:
https://alexpl.fedorapeople.org/packages/fonts/gdouros/gdouros-aegyptus-fonts/gdouros-aegyptus-fonts-5.03-1.fc21.src.rpm

Description:
This packages provides 3 fonts:
-Aegyptus, an Extended List of 7062 Egyptian Hieroglyphs, in regular and bold
font weights.
-Nilus, which covers Coptic, Meroitic, Hieratic Alphabet and Transliteration
Characters.
-Gardiner, extracted from Aegyptus Bold, which covers the Gardiner set of 1071
Egyptian Hieroglyphs, supported by The Unicode Standard since version 5.2 in
the SMP block 13000 - 1342F.

There is no standard for Egyptian Hieroglyphs or Meroitic, so they are
allocated in the Supplementary Private Use Plane 15. The fonts also cover Basic
Latin and some Punctuation and other Symbols.

They were created by George Douros, mainly based on the book Hieroglyphica,
PIREI I², 2000 and the work of Alan Gardiner.


Fedora Account System Username: alexpl


Koji scratch build:
http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=9402749


The font is already in fedora, but the current maintainer has been
non-responsive for quite some time, so this is the last step of the relevant
policy - a takeover request.

I have cleaned up the spec files from deprecated commands, added AppStream
metadata and I have included sample files provided by upstream in a separate
doc package. Following a brief discussion on devel ML and after having
contacted upstream for clarifications, I have decided not to include the hinted
fonts in the source package.

At some point, upstream decided to split the Aegyptus font into three:
Aegyptus, Gardiner and Nilus. Given that all their glyphs are contained in the
font package that we already have as gdouros-aegyptus-fonts and that they are
complimentary to each other, I took the liberty to package them all together.

-- 
You are receiving this mail because:
You are on the CC list for the bug.
You are always notified about changes to this product and component
_______________________________________________
package-review mailing list
package-review@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/package-review





[Index of Archives]     [Fedora Legacy]     [Fedora Desktop]     [Fedora SELinux]     [Yosemite News]     [KDE Users]     [Fedora Tools]