[Bug 1208838] New: Review Request: gdouros-alexander-fonts - A Greek typeface inspired by Alexander Wilson

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https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1208838

            Bug ID: 1208838
           Summary: Review Request: gdouros-alexander-fonts - A Greek
                    typeface inspired by Alexander Wilson
           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-alexander-fonts/gdouros-alexander-fonts.spec

SRPM URL:
https://alexpl.fedorapeople.org/packages/fonts/gdouros/gdouros-alexander-fonts/gdouros-alexander-fonts-5.01-1.fc21.src.rpm

Description:
A text typeface using the Greek letters designed by Alexander Wilson
(1714-1786), a Scottish doctor, astronomer, and type founder, who established a
type foundry in Glasgow in 1744. The type was especially designed for an
edition of Homer’s epics, published in 1756-8 by Andrew and Robert Foulis,
printers to the University of Glasgow. A modern revival, Wilson Greek, was
designed by Matthew Carter in 1995. Peter S. Baker is also using Wilson’s Greek
type in his Junicode font for medieval scholars (2007).

Latin and Cyrillic are based on a Garamond typeface. The font covers the
Windows Glyph List, IPA Extensions, Greek Extended, Ancient Greek Numbers,
Byzantine and Ancient Greek Musical Notation, various typographic extras and
several Open Type features (Case-Sensitive Forms, Small Capitals, Subscript,
Superscript, Numerators, Denominators, Fractions, Old Style Figures, Historical
Forms, Stylistic Alternates, Ligatures).

It was created by George Douros.


Fedora Account System Username: alexpl

Koji scratch build:
http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=9402802


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 a sample file 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
font in the source package.

Upstream ships Alexander as part of the "TextFonts" package, a small collection
of old-style, greek, serif typefaces. Perhaps we should package them all
together going forward and obsolete gdouros-alexander-fonts by providing a
gdouros-textfonts-fonts collective package.

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