dh_makefont(1)

💖 dh_makefont(1) — Debian Font packaging helper 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the General Commands Manual section, this is dh_makefont(1) and she is here to hold your hand through font packaging 🎀

✨ NAME ✨

dh_makefont — the Debian Font packaging helper, your new bestie for turning messy font tarballs into proper Debian source packages 💅

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

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

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

So like… dh_makefont is a wrapper for the dh_make command, and what it does is take regular font source packages and glow them up into one formatted according to the requirements of the Debian Policy. it's giving ✨makeover montage✨ but for packaging.

💅 OPTIONS 💅

• -h, --help — displays the name, version, available options and authors, then exits successfully. it's the "hi bestie tell me everything" button 🫶
• -c, --copyright license — use license in the copyright file for the package. license can be one of apache|artistic|bsd|gpl|gpl2|gpl3|lgpl|lgpl2|lgpl3|x11. pick your fighter 🥊
• -p, --package name[_version] — force the package name to be name. and if you give name_version, this will set the version number of the package, bypassing the directory checking entirely. living dangerously, love that for you 💀
• --maint maintainer — override the default name of the maintainer from "Debian Fonts Task Force" to maintainer. to Debian Fonts Task Force. maintainer should be in the form Maintainer Name <maint.email> — don't forget the angle brackets, bestie, they matter 😭
• -u, --upstream url — set the url from where the fonts were downloaded from to url. this url gets used in the following fields: the Homepage: field of the control file and the Source: field of the copyright file. one url, two jobs, main character energy 👑
• -v, --version — show the version number of the program and exit. short and iconic ✨
• font_folder — this is the name of the folder in which you have extracted the fonts. the rules for the folder name are the same as dh_make. and heads up: if you didn't give a proper name, dh_make will fail. no cap 🙈

🌈 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. that's you, that's your name in lights 💜

💀 BUGS 💀

okay so this is the one you need to hear: if the package name has a hyphen '-' in it, then dh_makefont will mess up the package naming. it's a known thing. it's not you, it's her. 😭

⭐ SEE ALSO ⭐

dh_make(1), dh(1) — go read your sisters, they know things too 🫶

and that's the whole page bestie!! go forth and package those fonts, you're literally going to slay 💖✨

this has been brought to you by the Debian Project, dated 2016-01-04 — yeah she's a vintage icon and she still ate 👑💅