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ppalazon

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Registered: 2026-04-10

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New font package for Google Font Science Gothic

Hi there,

I'm looking for creating a new AUR package to add the Google Font Science Gothic (https://github.com/googlefonts/science-gothic). I see that there's a variable version, and static ones, so I thought that it would be useful to have both in a simple repository as it's suggested on https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/otf-commissioner.

I have some questions:

- What version should I set in pkgver if this git repository doesn't have any tag or version on it?. I see that it has date version release (20250824), can I use this number as pkgver?
- Do you recommend creating two packages ('ttf-science-gothic' and 'ttf-science-gothic-variable') in the same AUR repository?. In case of affirmation, should I name the repository as 'ttf-science-gothic' or 'science-gothic-font'?.

Thank you in advance so any help about this.

Lone_Wolf

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From: Netherlands, Europe

Registered: 2005-10-04

Posts: 14,912

Re: New font package for Google Font Science Gothic

Upstream has no releases and no tags, using the number of revisions since development started plus the commit hash seems best choice .

See 4th example on https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/VCS_pa … elines#Git .

Also read https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Font_p … guidelines .

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