Hi,
A fonts packaging policy rewrite proposal has been pushed to FPC today: https://pagure.io/packaging-committee/pull-request/934
It should be clearer, more opinionated, and take into account: – updates of The OpenType standard – variable fonts – web fonts – upstream depreciation of non OpenType formats: final stages of the Harfbuzz consolidation decided at the 2006 Text Layout summit https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/TextLayout/ – appstream & fonts – weak dependencies – and probably more I forget here
It is based on the new fonts-rpm-macros project for automation:
This project builds on tooling enhancements in redhat-rpm-config and rpm itself, done during the past two years for the Forge and Go sets of packaging macros. It started 2 years ago as a fork of fontpackages, which is the core of our current fonts packaging guidelines.
It will require putting the fonts-srpm-macros package in the default build root, like is done for other domain-specific packaging macro sets.
Major additions: – better documentation (clearer and more complete) – better automation (less packager hassle for better and more complete results)
Major removals: – tools and scripts – fixing metadata with ttname
Mostly because no one seems willing to maintain those scripts, or port ttname to python 3.
https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/nim/fonts-rpm-macros/builds/
showcases the new policy on 62 real-world source packages, generating 139 installation packages. Some of those are badly delayed updates to Fedora packages, others are brand-new packages ready for Fedora inclusion. They include major font packages such as Stix, DejaVu, Droid, IBM Plex.
Existing Fedora packages will continue to build, the old fontpackages macros are grandfathered in fonts-rpm-macros for now. They will be removed in a few years to give packagers time to apply the new guidelines.
Regards,
Le mardi 12 novembre 2019 à 09:00 +0100, Nicolas Mailhot a écrit :
Hi,
A fonts packaging policy rewrite proposal has been pushed to FPC today: https://pagure.io/packaging-committee/pull-request/934
It is based on the new fonts-rpm-macros project for automation:
https://pagure.io/fonts-rpm-macros/
(it seems the link got omited while copying from pagure, I apologize for the bother, that was not intentional)
Regards,
Le mardi 12 novembre 2019 à 09:00 +0100, Nicolas Mailhot a écrit :
A fonts packaging policy rewrite proposal has been pushed to FPC today: https://pagure.io/packaging-committee/pull-request/934
It should be clearer, more opinionated, and take into account: – updates of The OpenType standard – variable fonts – web fonts – upstream depreciation of non OpenType formats – appstream & fonts – weak dependencies – and probably more I forget here
And the proposal has now been approved by FPC: https://meetbot-raw.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting-1/2020-02-13/fpc.2020-0...
It shall soon replace the content in https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/packaging-guidelines/FontsPolicy/
and make it easier to create good font packages in Fedora.
It is based on the new fonts-rpm-macros project for automation:
The associated review request is here https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1803281
Depending on how long the review takes, some of the material in https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/nim/fonts-rpm-macros/builds/
may end up in Fedora 32, or slip to the next release.
If it slips pre Fedora 33 font package changes will probably be limited to conservative updates.
Regards,
Hi all,
WHAT IS IT ALL ABOUT
On 2020-02-13, FPC approved a rewrite of our fonts packaging guidelines.
The previous guidelines were more than a decade old, technically outdated, relying on packages dropped from Fedora, and badly damaged during wiki to asciidoc migration.
The new guidelines took 2 years to design, automate, test and write.
The reviewing itself took 4 to 5 months.
STATUS
The guidelines are now published (grammar fixes welcome as a PR): https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/packaging-guidelines/FontsPolicy/
Their tech core made the F32 freeze deadline. https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/packageinfo?packageID=30775
It has been queued to F31. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2020-296917559c
A significant set of pre-existing font packages have been converted in F32 (a few, only in F33).
A significant set of new font packages have been added to F32 and F33 (huge thanks to Parag Nemade for a long list of repetitive reviews).
No EL8 backport is planned for now, because the redhat-rpm-config version in EL8 is too old, and requires @rh engineering approval to be updated. Ping me if you want to work on EL-ing – I won’t.
COMPATIBILITY
Existing font packages are unchanged and can still rebuild as-is.
Packagers are expected to migrate to new guidelines during F32 and F33. Legacy compatibility logic will be removed in F34. It is not equivalent feature and correctness wise with the new logic.
CHANGES FOR OTHER PACKAGES
No changes, EXCEPT FOR PACKAGES RELYING ON SPECIFIC FONT FILE PATHS.
Unfortunately, some font upstreams can not make up their mind, on whether to publish fonts in dedicated projects, as part of collections, or as part of something else. To limit the effect of such changes, our font file layout has been changed to be completely srpm-independant.
The resulting layout should now be more stable. However, users of the previous layout, need to change their symlinks or configuration files.
Maintainers of existing font packages, should avoid pushing updates built with the new logic, to previous releases.
It is still strongly recommended to migrate apps to fontconfig and harbuzz-ng. OpenType lets upstreams change the way they ventilate data among font files. Sometimes, this relayouting is required to implement new OpenType capabilities. fontconfig and harbuzz-ng isolate applications from a lot of font and text complexities.
CHANGES FOR FONT PACKAGE USERS
No direct change.
However, most converted font packages were updated to the latest upstream version as part of the conversion. This update can include major upstream changes (for example, Google Droid and STIX engineering fonts).
Existing fontconfig rules were also streamlined and completed.
Both of those can lead to user-visible changes.
CHANGES FOR FONT PACKAGERS
The font family model to the latest OpenType recommendation. PLEASE DO READ AND APPLY THE GUIDELINES FONT FAMILY DEFINITION.
OpenType, CSS and fontconfig are architected around this model, and build new features around it. Font packages that choose a different convention will cause problems in apps. They will need backwards- breaking changes once their upstream implements various OpenType enhancements.
The new guidelines no longer assumes upstreams will create a nice dedicated project for each font family. Fonts can be packaged as dedicated projects, as part of a collective project, or as part of something else, with the same spec blocks.
Appstream generation and testing is now automated (no more need to write appstream files or synchronise appstream file state with spec state by hand).
Primitives are provided to easily create font collection metapackages.
Guidelines should now cover a lot more cases, so you don’t need to locate a font expert to create or review font packages.
NEXT CHANGES
Lots of work with fontconfig upstream and major text users like LibreOffice or Inkscape, to fix more upstream font problems at the fontconfig level, with less fontconfig boilerplate, and better use of the result by apps (IBM Plex Sans requires more the 4000 lines of fontconfig fixes).
OpenType and CSS continue to standardise enhancements that assume the previous recommendations were applied strictly. That means that messy upstreams will cause more and more problems application-side unless fontconfig is enhanced to fix more of those by default. In particular, many previously minor transgressions break in presence of variable fonts (variable compatibility mecanisms rely on strict metadata use by fixed fonts).
NEW PACKAGES STILL PENDING REVIEW
– Some major Google font families:
typetogether-literata-fonts A contemporary serif font family for long-form reading https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1805992
sorkintype-merriweather-fonts A warm space-saving serif font family https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1805974
sorkintype-merriweather-sans-fonts A low-contrast semi-condensed sans-serif font family https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1805988
catharsis-cormorant-fonts A display serif font family inspired by the Garamond heritage https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1805681
ndiscover-exo-2-fonts A contemporary geometric sans serif font family https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1805756
production-type-spectral-fonts An efficient and versatile serif font family https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1805768
ossobuffo-jura-fonts A sans-serif font family in the Eurostile vein https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1805763
google-rubik-fonts A sans serif font family with slightly rounded corners https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1805731
– Other fonts:
uswds-public-sans-fonts A strong, neutral, principles-driven, sans-serif latin font family https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1805996
typesetit-great-vibes-fonts A beautifully flowing cursive font family https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1805991
Those are direct cut and pastes of the new Fedora font packaging templates, they’re easy (if tedious) reviews. So, good way to get reviewing karma points.
EXISTING PACKAGES NEEDING NEW REVIEW
pt-sans-fonts A grotesque pan-Cyrillic font family https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1805779 (renaming review)
EXISTING REVIEW REQUESTS NEEDING CONVERSION TO NEW GUIDELINES
intel-clear-sans-fonts A sharp on-screen sans-serif font https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1795974
Alternative if it stalls: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1811295
cwtex-q-fonts A series of modern traditional Chinese fonts https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1094015
hack-fonts A typeface designed for source code https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1258542 (that does not change the build from sources part, but this part is still a SHOULD not a MUST in our guidelines)
abhaya-libre-fonts Libre version of FM Abhaya font https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1750045
hfg-gmuend-openmoji-color-fonts Emojis with a line-drawn style https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1803059
I can review those when they are ready. Just ping me (I require at least two clean new font packages to sponsor new packages).
CONVERSIONS PENDING PR
impallari-raleway-fonts https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/impallari-raleway-fonts/pull-request/1
cascadia-code-fonts https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/cascadia-code-fonts/pull-request/1
NEW AND CONVERTED FONT PACKAGES
Available in F32 or F33. That should bring packaging to 100% for GFS and SIL (some SIL packages not converted yet, and one GFS font with problem licensing upstream not packaged).
adf-accanthis-2-fonts adf-accanthis-3-fonts adf-accanthis-fonts adf-tribun-fonts bitstream-vera-sans-fonts bitstream-vera-sans-mono-fonts bitstream-vera-serif-fonts dejavu-lgc-sans-fonts dejavu-lgc-sans-mono-fonts dejavu-lgc-serif-fonts dejavu-sans-fonts dejavu-sans-mono-fonts dejavu-serif-fonts ecolier-court-fonts ecolier-lignes-court-fonts gfs-ambrosia-fonts gfs-artemisia-fonts gfs-baskerville-fonts gfs-bodoni-classic-fonts gfs-bodoni-fonts gfs-complutum-fonts gfs-decker-fonts gfs-didot-classic-fonts gfs-didot-display-fonts gfs-didot-fonts gfs-eustace-fonts gfs-fleischman-fonts gfs-galatea-fonts gfs-garaldus-fonts gfs-gazis-fonts gfs-goschen-fonts gfs-ignacio-fonts gfs-jackson-fonts gfs-neohellenic-fonts gfs-neohellenic-math-fonts gfs-nicefore-fonts gfs-olga-fonts gfs-orpheus-classic-fonts gfs-orpheus-fonts gfs-orpheus-sans-fonts gfs-philostratos-fonts gfs-porson-fonts gfs-pyrsos-fonts gfs-solomos-fonts gfs-theokritos-fonts glyphography-newscycle-fonts google-droid-sans-fonts google-droid-sans-mono-fonts google-droid-serif-fonts google-go-fonts google-go-mono-fonts google-go-smallcaps-fonts ht-alegreya-fonts ht-alegreya-sans-fonts ibm-plex-fonts ibm-plex-sans-fonts ibm-plex-mono-fonts ibm-plex-serif-fonts ibm-plex-sans-thai-looped-fonts impallari-dancing-script-fonts jetbrains-mono-fonts senamirmir-fantuwua-fonts senamirmir-hiwua-fonts senamirmir-jiret-fonts senamirmir-tint-fonts senamirmir-washra-fonts senamirmir-wookianos-fonts senamirmir-yebse-fonts senamirmir-yigezu-bisrat-goffer-fonts senamirmir-yigezu-bisrat-gothic-fonts senamirmir-zelan-fonts sil-alkalami-fonts sil-andika-compact-fonts sil-andika-fonts sil-andika-new-basic-fonts sil-annapurna-fonts sil-apparatus-fonts sil-awami-nastaliq-fonts sil-busra-bunong-fonts sil-busra-diagnostic-fonts sil-busra-dict-fonts sil-busra-dot-fonts sil-busra-fonts sil-busra-high-fonts sil-busra-moe-fonts sil-busra-xspace-fonts sil-charis-compact-fonts sil-charis-fonts sil-dai-banna-fonts sil-ezra-fonts sil-ezra-sr-fonts sil-gentium-plus-compact-fonts sil-gentium-plus-fonts sil-harmattan-fonts sil-mondulkiri-fonts sil-namdhinggo-fonts sil-oureang-fonts sil-ratanakiri-fonts sil-shimenkan-fonts sil-sophia-nubian-fonts sil-tagmukay-fonts sil-tai-heritage-pro-fonts stix-fonts symbian-m-yuppy-gb-fonts vernnobile-muli-fonts vernnobile-nunito-fonts vernnobile-oswald-fonts wagesreiter-patrick-hand-fonts weiweihuanghuang-work-sans-fonts yanone-kaffeesatz-fonts
Regards,
Hi all,
WHAT IS IT ALL ABOUT
On 2020-02-13, FPC approved a rewrite of our fonts packaging guidelines.
STATUS
✅ Published https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/packaging-guidelines/FontsPolicy/ (grammar fixes welcome as a PR)
✅ Fedora 33 and next
✅ Fedora 32 (before freeze deadline)
✅ Fedora 31 (as update)
Infrastructure work is now finished and I won’t post new updates before the Fedora 34 compatibility cutover.
COMPATIBILITY
New conforming packages can now be published from Fedora 31, upwards.
Existing packages should be converted from Fedora 33, upwards. Do not convert packages within a stable release without extra checking, please.
Starting with Fedora 34, existing packages will fail rebuild (removal of compatibility glue). Use the Fedora 32 and 33 cycles to convert.
NEW PACKAGES STILL PENDING REVIEW
– Some major Google font families:
typetogether-literata-fonts A contemporary serif font family for long-form reading https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1805992
sorkintype-merriweather-fonts A warm space-saving serif font family https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1805974
sorkintype-merriweather-sans-fonts A low-contrast semi-condensed sans-serif font family https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1805988
catharsis-cormorant-fonts A display serif font family inspired by the Garamond heritage https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1805681
ndiscover-exo-2-fonts A contemporary geometric sans serif font family https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1805756
production-type-spectral-fonts An efficient and versatile serif font family https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1805768
ossobuffo-jura-fonts A sans-serif font family in the Eurostile vein https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1805763
google-rubik-fonts A sans serif font family with slightly rounded corners https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1805731
EXISTING PACKAGES NEEDING NEW REVIEW
pt-sans-fonts A grotesque pan-Cyrillic font family https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1805779 (renaming review)
EXISTING REVIEW REQUESTS NEEDING CONVERSION TO NEW GUIDELINES
intel-clear-sans-fonts A sharp on-screen sans-serif font https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1795974
Alternative if it stalls: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1811295
cwtex-q-fonts A series of modern traditional Chinese fonts https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1094015
hack-fonts A typeface designed for source code https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1258542 (that does not change the build from sources part, but this part is still a SHOULD not a MUST in our guidelines)
abhaya-libre-fonts Libre version of FM Abhaya font https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1750045
hfg-gmuend-openmoji-color-fonts Emojis with a line-drawn style https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1803059
NEW AND CONVERTED FONT PACKAGES
Available in F31, F32 or F33. Apologies if I missed one.
adf-accanthis-2-fonts adf-accanthis-3-fonts adf-accanthis-fonts adf-tribun-fonts bitstream-vera-sans-fonts bitstream-vera-sans-mono-fonts bitstream-vera-serif-fonts dejavu-lgc-sans-fonts dejavu-lgc-sans-mono-fonts dejavu-lgc-serif-fonts dejavu-sans-fonts dejavu-sans-mono-fonts dejavu-serif-fonts ecolier-court-fonts ecolier-lignes-court-fonts gfs-ambrosia-fonts gfs-artemisia-fonts gfs-baskerville-fonts gfs-bodoni-classic-fonts gfs-bodoni-fonts gfs-complutum-fonts gfs-decker-fonts gfs-didot-classic-fonts gfs-didot-display-fonts gfs-didot-fonts gfs-eustace-fonts gfs-fleischman-fonts gfs-galatea-fonts gfs-garaldus-fonts gfs-gazis-fonts gfs-goschen-fonts gfs-ignacio-fonts gfs-jackson-fonts gfs-neohellenic-fonts gfs-neohellenic-math-fonts gfs-nicefore-fonts gfs-olga-fonts gfs-orpheus-classic-fonts gfs-orpheus-fonts gfs-orpheus-sans-fonts gfs-philostratos-fonts gfs-porson-fonts gfs-pyrsos-fonts gfs-solomos-fonts gfs-theokritos-fonts glyphography-newscycle-fonts google-arimo-fonts google-cousine-fonts google-droid-sans-fonts google-droid-sans-mono-fonts google-droid-serif-fonts google-go-fonts google-go-mono-fonts google-go-smallcaps-fonts google-tinos-fonts ht-alegreya-fonts ht-alegreya-sans-fonts ibm-plex-fonts ibm-plex-sans-fonts ibm-plex-mono-fonts ibm-plex-serif-fonts ibm-plex-sans-thai-looped-fonts impallari-dancing-script-fonts impallari-raleway-script-fonts jetbrains-mono-fonts jetbrains-mono-nl-fonts madan-fonts senamirmir-fantuwua-fonts senamirmir-hiwua-fonts senamirmir-jiret-fonts senamirmir-tint-fonts senamirmir-washra-fonts senamirmir-wookianos-fonts senamirmir-yebse-fonts senamirmir-yigezu-bisrat-goffer-fonts senamirmir-yigezu-bisrat-gothic-fonts senamirmir-zelan-fonts sil-alkalami-fonts sil-andika-compact-fonts sil-andika-fonts sil-andika-new-basic-fonts sil-annapurna-fonts sil-apparatus-fonts sil-awami-nastaliq-fonts sil-busra-bunong-fonts sil-busra-diagnostic-fonts sil-busra-dict-fonts sil-busra-dot-fonts sil-busra-fonts sil-busra-high-fonts sil-busra-moe-fonts sil-busra-xspace-fonts sil-charis-compact-fonts sil-charis-fonts sil-dai-banna-fonts sil-ezra-fonts sil-ezra-sr-fonts sil-gentium-plus-compact-fonts sil-gentium-plus-fonts sil-harmattan-fonts sil-mondulkiri-fonts sil-namdhinggo-fonts sil-oureang-fonts sil-ratanakiri-fonts sil-shimenkan-fonts sil-sophia-nubian-fonts sil-tagmukay-fonts sil-tai-heritage-pro-fonts stix-fonts symbian-m-yuppy-gb-fonts vernnobile-muli-fonts vernnobile-nunito-fonts vernnobile-oswald-fonts wagesreiter-patrick-hand-fonts weiweihuanghuang-work-sans-fonts yanone-kaffeesatz-fonts
Regards,
packaging@lists.fedoraproject.org
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Nicolas Mailhot