https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1496466

--- Comment #10 from Nicolas Mailhot nicolas.mailhot@laposte.net --- (In reply to David Kaspar [Dee'Kej] from comment #7)

Do you have any suggestion on how to proceed from here? Should I take this to FESco and ask for official exception/permission to ship both Type1/AFM and OTF formats?

That's a poor situation to be in, but yes the minimum would be to ship the OpenType¹ versions as required by Fedora packaging guidelines, and maybe hide somewhere the Type1/AFM versions for GS private use (after asking Fesco). The first priority would be to avoid Ghostscript blocking progress in other apps that want to use those fonts. If that can help you in any way, you have my blessing, for the little it is worth.

As an aside I understand the reluctance of Ghostscript upstream to switch from "proven" Type1 fonts but let's be honest, Ghostscript is fed all kinds of stuff by third-party apps, the Type1 support of those apps is going away, they *will* preferentially use OpenType files, so long term there will be all sorts of subtle discrepancies between a Ghostscript that understands URW as "Type1", and the rest of the world that thinks "Opentype". But that's typically a "choose your poison" situation for the Ghostscript maintainer, it need not impact the rest of the distro the way it does now.

¹ Probably OTF not TTF given the Type1 history of those fonts