Dear all, I've just posted the following in https://fedorahosted.org/review-o-matic/ticket/4 Review-o-matic should perform Fedora font guidelines tests when processing packages that include fonts (current common font files have the ttf, otf, ttc, pfb, and pfa extensions) 1. Not real font file tests: If the files are not actual files but symlinks to something else in /usr/share/fonts the following reminders apply (they're not official font guidelines, since symlinks are not actual font files) 1. The package providing the target of the symlinks should be part of the package dependencies 1. If this package is one of the Free fonts, Bistream Vera, Linux Libertine, DejaVu? LGC ... packages, remind the packager the default Fedora fonts are Dejavu so it's much better to depend on a Dejavu package as it's likely to be already installed on user systems and perfectly suitable for a default font with no stylistic requirements 1. Remind the packager to ping upstream to add fontconfig support to its app so the symlinks can be dropped altoguether 2. Actual font file (and official guidelines) tests: If the files are real files, the following tests apply 1. Package/subpackage layout should be checked against http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackagingDrafts/Font_package_splitting_rule... (approved today by FPC) 1. For pure font packages (not font subpackages of non-font packages) package naming should be checked against http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackagingDrafts/Font_package_naming_(2008-1... (approved today by FPC) 1. File packaging should be checked against http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Simple_fonts_spec_template or http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fonts_spec_template_for_multiple_fonts (basically, use of the macros and deps defined in the templates) 1. If a font (sub)package is missing a fontconfig file, remind the packager it would be a good idea to add it Current manual auditing of existing packages (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/showdependencytree.cgi?id=477044) is unearthing lots of duplicate copies of (old) Vera/DejaVu/FreeSans fonts, font files we should never have shipped and are a legal problem (Arial Narrow), and fonts we are better of packaging distro-wide instead of hiding inside apps. So there is a real benefit to perform this kind of test regularly. Sincerely, -- Nicolas Mailhot