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Package name    : all-the-icons-el
Version         : 2.6.4
Upstream Author : Dominic Charlesworth <dgc336@gmail.com>
URL             : https://github.com/domtronn/all-the-icons.el
License         : MIT
Programming Lang: lisp
Description     : library for inserting developer icons in Emacs

 This package is a utility for using and formatting various icon
 fonts within Emacs.  Icon Fonts allow you to propertize and format
 icons the same way you would normal text.  This enables things such
 as better scaling of and anti aliasing of the icons.
 .
 This package was inspired by the following projects:
 .
 - `mode-icons' for Emacs, found at https://github.com/ryuslash/mode-icons
 - `file-icons' for Atom, found at https://atom.io/packages/file-icons
 .
 Currently, this package provides an interface to the following icon fonts
 .
 - Atom File Icons
 - FontAwesome Icons
 - GitHub Octicons
 - Material Design Icons
 - Weather Icons
 - AllTheIcons - Custom font with fewest icons

This package is needed by emacs-neotree, which is needed for the spacemacs packaging effort.

I plan to maintain the elisp parts as part of the Debian Emacsen
Packaging Team, but it will be necessary to coordinate with the Debian
Fonts Task Force for the "icon fonts".  I will need a sponsor for the
initial upload.

Sincerely,
Nicholas

I just learned that I had never provided my rationale for abandoning
this ITP.

I do not believe this one meets our high standards, which is why I gave
up on the ITP.  Namely, I investigated the standards of the Font Team,
saw how they were generating fonts, saw this was not possible with
all-the-icons.el.  I believe I also filed some bugs and/or attempted to
contact our Font Team, but sadly never received a reply.  At any rate,
while I think font icons are a cool hack, others have expressed strong
opinions about how font icons are an abomination that should DIAF.

Supposing we did go ahead with uploading this, my concerns are:  1)
trademarked images that are removed from the font-foo packages for DFSG
reasons.  2) Conflicts with the system-wide font-foo packages and
associated bug potential.  3) Missing collaboration with the Font Team.

Regards,
Nicholas