dh_makefont (1)

Leading comments

(C) Copyright 2011-2012 Vasudev Kamath <kamathvasudev@gmail.com>
                    and Muneeb Shaikh <iammuneeb@gmail.com>
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.

(The comments found at the beginning of the groff file "man1/dh_makefont.1".)

NAME

dh_makefont - Debian Font packaging helper

SYNOPSIS

dh_makefont [-h, --help] [-c,--copyright <type>] [-p,--package <name[_version]>] [--maint MAINT] [-u,--upstream UPSTREAMURL] font_folder

DESCRIPTION

dh_makefont is a wrapper for the dh_make command to convert regular font source packages into one formatted according to the requirements of the Debian Policy.

OPTIONS

-h, --help

Display the name, version, available options and authors, and exit successfully.

-c, --copyright license

Use license in copyright file for the package. license can be one of apache|artistic|bsd|gpl|gpl2|gpl3|lgpl|lgpl2|lgpl3|x11.

-p, --package name[_version]

Force package name to be name. If name_version is given this will set version number of package bypassing the directory checking.

--maint maintainer

Ovrride the default name of the mainter from "Debian Fonts Task Force" to maintainer. to *Debian Fonts Task Force*. maintainer should be in the form Maintainer Name <maint.email>

-u, --upstream url

Set the url from where the fonts were downloaded from to url. This url will be used in the following fields: Homepage: field of the control file and Source: field of the copyright file

-v, --version

Show the version number of program and exit.

font_folder

This is the name of the folder in which you have extracted the fonts. Rules for folder name are same as dh_make. If you didn't give proper name dh_make will fail.

ENVIRONMENT

The following environment settings are used by dh_makefont:

DEBEMAIL

Email address to use in control and changelog entries.

DEBFULLNAME

You full name, eg "John Doe" which will appear in the control and changelog entries.

BUGS

If the package name has a hypen '-' in it then dh_makefont will mess up the package naming.

SEE ALSO

dh_make(1),dh(1)