Comps fonts rules

Fonts for a particular linguistic region used to be bundled in fonts-region packages. Nowadays this practice is frowned upon, fonts package naming reflects upstream naming like in any other Fedora package, and grouping is achieved through comps groups.

• Font packages in a legacy format (not TTF or OTF) MUST be registered in the legacy-fonts group.
• Font packages in a non-legacy format (TTF or OTF):
  1. MUST be registered in the fonts group:
     • except when they don't have an active upstream, in which case putting them in legacy-fonts is fine.
  2. SHOULD also be registered in every applicable xxx-support localization group:
     • except groups that only require glyphs in the basic latin range.
     • if a font package adds support for a script previously not supported by Fedora the associated localization groups MUST be created and filed, and the relevant localization teams notified.
  3. SHOULD be declared optional, unless:
     • they add support for a new script, in which case they MUST be declared required in the associated localization groups.
     • they add better support for already supported scripts, in which case, if the localization team in charge of each localization group agrees:
       • they can replace existing fonts as mandatory if this script is not covered by distribution-wide default fonts.
       • they can replace existing fonts as default if this script is covered by distribution-wide default fonts.

Fonts in Fedora
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