Bug#991802: ITP: fonts-vazir -- A free sans font for Persian and Arabic
On Mon, Aug 2, 2021 at 8:09 AM eshagh wrote:
> This is my first package for Debian, and I may make a lot of mistakes. I have
> not raised the issue in my forum yet, but if I can add this font and learn how
> to add it, I will definitely get help from others to contribute and improve it.
The first thing to note is that the upstream repository contains
pre-built binary fonts, along with the build scripts and source files.
Normally pre-built files should not be in git repositories, so you
might want to ask upstream to rewrite the repository to remove them,
which would make the repository smaller, and then attach the pre-built
fonts to the corresponding GitHub releases. If they refuse to either
rewrite the repo to remove them or even refuse to delete them in the
latest commit, then you should remove them using uscan's
Files-Excluded feature:
https://wiki.debian.org/Javascript/Repacking
https://wiki.debian.org/UscanEnhancements#Deleting_Files_using_Files-Excluded_field_in_debian.2Fcopyright
It looks like all the tools used by the upstream build scripts (see
scripts/README.md) are available in Debian.
--
bye,
pabs
https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise
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