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Today, Hideki Yamane completed his work on the last four packages maintained by the Font packaging Team to make them switch to source v3.

Along with these changes, we also moved all our packages to debhelper v7 and minimal rules files. We also dropped the dependency on the obsoleted defoma.

The team maintains 77 source packages for fonts and has now built a quite solid experience in this. In the upcoming weeks, I'll try to get in touch with other people who maintain fonts, inviting them to join the team and maintain their packages in our SVN (we don't do very fancy things so SVN is very well suited for such work). The maingoals will be to continue dropping support for defoma (dropping defoma hints files: you can see good examples on how to do this properly in packages maintained by the team, such as ttf-dejavu).

We also intend to drop useless Recommends or Suggests that appear in some font packages (often on "x-ttcidfontconf | fontconfig" which is now completely useless) as well as harmonizing package naming schemes (with a "(ttf|otf)--" scheme).

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