Feature changed by: Vincent Untz (vuntz) Feature #313035, revision 17 Title: Invent Consistent Font Naming Schema openSUSE Distribution: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Thomas Schraitle (thomas-schraitle) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: Current State Currently, our package names for fonts are suboptimal. Here are some examples: farsifonts fonts-arabic freefont gnu-unifont indic-fonts intlfonts-ttf xorg-x11-fonts From a usability perspective, it would be better to make a consistent naming schema for font packages. Naming schemas from other distributions: * Ubuntu: prefix with "ttf-" * Fedora: suffix with "-fonts" With the above inconcistency, popular fonts like LinuxLibertine or dejavu cannot be found. Please document any decisions in the Package Guidelines regarding how to name our fonts correctly and consistently. Ideas Taken from the opensuse-packaging mailinglist: * Renamed packages should contain a Provides+Obsoletes keyword in their SPEC file * Renamed packages should contain their Ubuntu name in Provides. For example: Name: roboto-fonts, Provides:ttf-roboto Relations: - Package Guidelines (url: http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Packaging_guidelines) - Fedora: Packaging:FontsPolicy (url: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:FontsPolicy) - Mail Thread on opensuse-packaging ML (url: http://lists.suse.de/opensuse-packaging/2011-11/msg00126.html) - Old Wiki Page for Font Package Layout (url: http://old-en.opensuse.org/Packaging/Fonts_Policy#Package_layout_for_fonts) - Ubuntu Font Package List (url: http://packages.ubuntu.com/search?suite=natty§ion=all&arch=any&searchon=names&keywords=ttf) - Fedora Font Package List (url: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/acls/list/*-fonts*?_csrf_token=b272157...) - Request of a Fonts Repository (novell/bugzilla/id: 734550) https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=734550 Business case (Partner benefit): openSUSE.org: The benefits: * Consistency: easier to find, easier to install * Usability: better to memorize and therefor easier to find * Migration: Users from other distributions find their fonts easier Discussion: #1: Michael Foerster (yamaban) (2011-12-01 00:22:29) A suffix *-font(s) would be a good start. Yes, that would include ALL fonts, but for the details (e.g: vector/woff/ttf/otf/t1/bitmap) there's also the description field. (see "zypper se" or http://software.opensuse.org/search) A prefix ttf- / otf- / t1- could be added or not, even at a later date. Maybe even gatter all fonts in a 'devel' repo, to give them a central home? #6: Thomas Schraitle (thomas-schraitle) (2011-12-03 12:47:51) (reply to #1)
Maybe even gatter all fonts in a 'devel' repo, to give them a central home? See Bug # 734550 (https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=734550)
Currently, our package names for fonts are suboptimal. Well, the
Well, the package name usually follows the upstream project name. [...] Fedora: suffix with "-fonts" unifont-fonts sounds kinda weird and redundant. This is probably the case and leads to this "weird" package name. However, you will find *always* examples were it looks strange. That's
#2: Jan Engelhardt (jengelh) (2011-12-01 00:31:14) package name usually follows the upstream project name. >Ubuntu: prefix with "ttf-" Hah, something only Ubuntu could have come up with. As if everything was ttf. >Fedora: suffix with "-fonts" unifont-fonts sounds kinda weird and redundant. I would argue that is precisely what RPM groups are for. Search in the System/X11/Fonts category and voilà. #3: Thomas Schraitle (thomas-schraitle) (2011-12-01 10:28:57) (reply to #2) the price we need to pay if we want to be consistent. It is at least better than the existing mess. #4: Thomas Schraitle (thomas-schraitle) (2011-12-01 14:00:52) According to Fedora packaging, they use the naming schema [foundryname-]projectname[-fontfamilyname]-fonts in lowercase. #5: Thomas Schraitle (thomas-schraitle) (2011-12-02 17:52:03) Requested new top level directory with the name "Fonts". See bnc#734550. + #7: Vincent Untz (vuntz) (2011-12-05 09:31:55) + This should be easy to fix for 12.2, so let's just do it :-) -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/313035