fonts-thai-ttf has been abandoned!

Behdad Esfahbod behdad at behdad.org
Wed Jul 2 00:20:23 EDT 2008


On Tue, 2008-07-01 at 18:19 -0400, C. Scott Ananian wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 5:52 PM, Marco Pesenti Gritti <mpg at redhat.com> wrote:
> > C. Scott Ananian wrote:
> >>
> >> We added a package named 'fonts-thai-ttf' to our builds a while ago
> >> for thai font support.  However, no one here now remembers where this
> >> font came from, or where the upstream came from.  Can someone familiar
> >> with thai support help out?  Ideally we'd like to confirm the
> >> licensing and then grow a maintainer for this package in fedora.
> >>
> >
> > I *think* this was provided by behdad, adding him.
> >
> > Am I wrong to think that thaifonts-scalable should replace it?
> 
> >From http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=34572 it
> looks like you are right, considering the first changelog entry is
> from Behdad and explicitly mentions OLPC.

Yes, I followed up on Fedora and the package was added to Fedora with a
different name.

behdad


>   But I'd like some
> confirmation from someone doing work in Thailand, if possible.  Is
> there a test case I can run to find out if Thai support "works"?
>  --scott
> 
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