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Is it ok to provide a link to the .deb files for Infinality?

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pritesh_ugrankar
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Is it ok to provide a link to the .deb files for Infinality?

#1 Post by pritesh_ugrankar »

Respected Forum Members,

I'm returning back to Debian after trying other distros based on Debian. Love the real Debian.

I've recently created .deb packages for the Infinality fonts after going through https://github.com/cmpitg/infinality-debian-package. Note that I'm on 64 bit Debian Jessie and kernel 4.9

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:~$ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID:	Debian
Description:	Debian GNU/Linux 8.7 (jessie)
Release:	8.7
Codename:	jessie
:~$ cat /etc/debian_version 
8.7
:~$ 

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:~$ uname -a
Linux debian 4.9.0-0.bpo.2-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 4.9.13-1~bpo8+1 (2017-02-27) x86_64 GNU/Linux
Just wanted to know if it's ok to provide the links to the files here on the forums?
This is my first post so please pardon me if I've posted it in the wrong forum.
Regards,
Pritesh

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Re: Is it ok to provide a link to the .deb files for Infinal

#2 Post by stevepusser »

It's OK to post links, but since you haven't built up any reputation on this forum, people are just likely to be wary of installing a random set of packages from a first time poster. It's not saying anything bad about you, it's just that nobody knows you here and no one can be sure if your package might not contain malware.

There was already a repository that hosted infinality packages for Jessie by a long-time poster, I don't know if he took those down in favor of Freetype 2.7.1, though, since that offers much of the same improvements.
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Re: Is it ok to provide a link to the .deb files for Infinal

#3 Post by pritesh_ugrankar »

Hi Steve,

Thanks for the update.

Regards,
Pritesh

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Re: Is it ok to provide a link to the .deb files for Infinal

#4 Post by debiman »

doesn't this already contain everything? doesn't look too complicated to me...
if you want to pre-build the package for the convenience of potential users, it has to be architecture-specific, no?
also, have you tried doing that by contributing to the repo, i.e. asking the maintainer to include your pre-built packages?

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