Hi, On Thu, May 21, 2026 at 2:52 AM Mateus R. Costa <[email protected]> wrote: > Think about it like this, if Fira Code and FiraGo are respectively > supersets os Fira Mono and Fira Sans, maybe we should just reflect > that in the packaging? > We could ship a fontconfig that make the system behaves as the are > equivalent and change the specs so the superset font provides the > older one!
If FiraGo is font-metrics compatible with Fira Sans (and Fira Mono), you can provide it for the substitution. Otherwise, I think it's better not to do it. > That is, if that is something we as font packagers are allowed to do. > I am fine with having the original Sans and Mono fonts in the repos > for completeness but maybe taking this other approach could save us > time and effort? Unretiring them? If you think it is useful, you can. If you meant to have them in one place, you probably can't unless they are in the same archive. That is what the packaging guidelines define. > > Btw looking in the repos it's noticeable that Fira Math is only > available for Latex usage, but not as a normal font, and that Firava > is not packaged at all. > I am willing to package those fonts in the near future so it can be > useable for whoever is interested. > > Hope we can get into an agreement, > Mateus Rodrigues Costa > -- > _______________________________________________ > devel mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] > Fedora Code of Conduct: > https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > List Archives: > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected] > Do not reply to spam, report it: > https://forge.fedoraproject.org/infra/tickets/issues/new -- Akira TAGOH -- _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected] Do not reply to spam, report it: https://forge.fedoraproject.org/infra/tickets/issues/new
