[Freefont-bugs] Re: broken link at http://www.nongnu.org/freefont/, version number?

[Jeremy C. Reed]

On Fri, 22 Jul 2005, Primoz PETERLIN wrote:

> > The "Downloading fonts" link at http://www.nongnu.org/freefont/ points to
> > non-existent http://freesoftware.fsf.org/download/freefont/
> > Can you please fix the link?
> > I assume it should point to http://savannah.nongnu.org/download/freefont/
>
> That's correct. I have corrected the file in the CVS repository. It
> doesn't show up yet, but it probably will in a few hours.

Thank you!

> > Also, can you please include filenames that include a version number? I
> > help make ready-to-use packages and it is inconvenient to invent our own
> > version numbers and also we use checksums to verify the integrity of the
> > downloads based on unique filenames.
>
> I don't want to invent some arbitrary version numbers either, but I guess
> I could probably provide timestamp-based tags, e.g. something like
> freefont-20050722-ttf.tar.gz. Would be that OK with you?

Yes, using the date would be great. It may be better though to use the 
version at the end. Some tools used by packaging systems may assume the 
"ttf" is part of the versioning, and so freefont-20050722-ttf and 
freefont-20050722-sfd would appear to be same package but just different 
versions.

Notice that Debian calls it: ttf-freefont_20031008-1.1. I don't like that 
since "ttf" is not your project name.

I used freefont-ttf-20050407 for my pkgsrc package. Please consider using 
freefont-ttf-20050722 and freefont-sfd-20050722 as the naming.

Also, can you please link to the pkgsrc package? Here is a diff for your 
webpage:

--- index.html.orig     2005-07-22 10:54:52.000000000 -0700
+++ index.html  2005-07-22 11:00:52.000000000 -0700
@@ -165,6 +165,17 @@
 system can download a <tt>.deb</tt> package from the <A
 HREF="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/x11/ttf-freefont.html";>Debian
 Web site</a>.
+</P>
+
+<H3>NetBSD pkgsrc</H3>
+
+<p>Users of the <a HREF="http://www.pkgsrc.org/";>pkgsrc</a> package
+system or <a HREF="http://www.NetBSD.org/";>NetBSD</a> can use
+<tt>pkgsrc/fonts/freefont-ttf</tt>.
+The package webpage is at the <a
+HREF="ftp://ftp.NetBSD.org/pub/NetBSD/packages/pkgsrc/fonts/freefont-ttf/README.html";>NetBSD
+site</a>.
+</p>

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 <P>Primo?? Peterlin, address@hidden, $Date: 2005/07/22 13:54:36 $</P>




 Jeremy C. Reed

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