Bug#724629: [Pkg-fonts-devel] Package for Fira Sans and Fira Mono

[Fabian Greffrath]

Am Donnerstag, den 02.11.2017, 17:09 +0100 schrieb Yves-Alexis Perez:
> Maybe Fabian or Rodolphe, who package the Fira Code font, would be
> interested?

I'd certainly be happy to sponsor an upload, but I am not going to
package it on my own.

Cheers,

 - Fabian


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Bug#724629: [Pkg-fonts-devel] Package for Fira Sans and Fira Mono

[Yves-Alexis Perez]

On Sun, 29 Jan 2017 21:57:47 +0100 Stefan Tatschner 
wrote:
> On Tue, 02 Aug 2016 15:57:17 -0400 Joachim Breitner 
> wrote:
> > it’s been two years… Is still someone trying to get this into Debian?
> > 
> > (I’ll use https://github.com/eddelbuettel/pkg-fonts-fira for now.)
> 
> 
> I also want to use fira in debian, but nobody seems to be interested in
> packaging it. :/

Maybe Fabian or Rodolphe, who package the Fira Code font, would be interested?

Regards,
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Bug#724629: [Pkg-fonts-devel] Package for Fira Sans and Fira Mono

[Stefan Tatschner]

On Tue, 02 Aug 2016 15:57:17 -0400 Joachim Breitner 
wrote:
> it’s been two years… Is still someone trying to get this into Debian?
> 
> (I’ll use https://github.com/eddelbuettel/pkg-fonts-fira for now.)


I also want to use fira in debian, but nobody seems to be interested in
packaging it. :/

Stefan

Bug#724629: [Pkg-fonts-devel] Package for Fira Sans and Fira Mono

[Joachim Breitner]

Hi,

On Mon, 23 Jun 2014 09:45:38 +0800 Paul Wise  wrote:
> On Mon, 2014-06-23 at 00:26 +0200, Rüdiger Sonderfeld wrote:
> 
> > They have now added the UFO files to the github repo.  I haven't updated 
> > the 
> > package yet.  But it should now be good enough for Debian main, right?
> > 
> > * https://github.com/mozilla/Fira/issues/25#issuecomment-46699424
> > * https://github.com/mozilla/Fira/tree/master/source/UFO%20%28Beta%29
> 
> It sounds like the author is still using the Glyphs app but saving and
> loading UFO instead of the Glyphs format. That seems acceptable.
> 
> http://dev.carrois.com/fira-3-1/
> 
> However, we are missing a way to build the fonts from the UFO sources.

it’s been two years… Is still someone trying to get this into Debian?

(I’ll use https://github.com/eddelbuettel/pkg-fonts-fira for now.)

Thanks,
Joachim


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Bug#724629: [Pkg-fonts-devel] Package for Fira Sans and Fira Mono

[Rüdiger Sonderfeld]

On Saturday 31 May 2014 11:34:59 Paul Wise wrote:
 The source can only be converted to a TrueType font using a
 proprietary program that only runs on Macs. This means that Fira is
 not suitable for Debian main and must be uploaded to Debian contrib
 instead.

They have now added the UFO files to the github repo.  I haven't updated the 
package yet.  But it should now be good enough for Debian main, right?

* https://github.com/mozilla/Fira/issues/25#issuecomment-46699424
* https://github.com/mozilla/Fira/tree/master/source/UFO%20%28Beta%29

Regards,
Rüdiger


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Bug#724629: [Pkg-fonts-devel] Package for Fira Sans and Fira Mono

[Paul Wise]

On Mon, 2014-06-23 at 00:26 +0200, Rüdiger Sonderfeld wrote:

 They have now added the UFO files to the github repo.  I haven't updated the 
 package yet.  But it should now be good enough for Debian main, right?
 
 * https://github.com/mozilla/Fira/issues/25#issuecomment-46699424
 * https://github.com/mozilla/Fira/tree/master/source/UFO%20%28Beta%29

It sounds like the author is still using the Glyphs app but saving and
loading UFO instead of the Glyphs format. That seems acceptable.

http://dev.carrois.com/fira-3-1/

However, we are missing a way to build the fonts from the UFO sources.

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Bug#724629: [Pkg-fonts-devel] Package for Fira Sans and Fira Mono

[Rüdiger Sonderfeld]

On Saturday 31 May 2014 11:34:59 Paul Wise wrote:
 The source can only be converted to a TrueType font using a
 proprietary program that only runs on Macs.

The issue is discussed here: 
https://github.com/mozilla/Fira/issues/25#issuecomment-44137353

It seems that at the moment Mozilla won't accept modifications.  But if they 
do maybe we can convince them to standardise on UFO instead of a proprietary 
editor format.  UFO should be supported by FontForge.

Regards,
Rüdiger


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Bug#724629: [Pkg-fonts-devel] Package for Fira Sans and Fira Mono

[Rüdiger Sonderfeld]

On Saturday 31 May 2014 11:34:59 Paul Wise wrote:
 Mozilla are not distributing the source for these fonts. The source is
 available though, see these sites:
 
 http://www.donotlick.com/2014/05/23/try-out-fira-sans-a-free-open-source-typ
 eface-commissioned-by-mozilla/ http://dev.carrois.com/fira-3-1/
 
 The source can only be converted to a TrueType font using a
 proprietary program that only runs on Macs. This means that Fira is
 not suitable for Debian main and must be uploaded to Debian contrib
 instead.
 
 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7793735
 http://www.glyphsapp.com/

Does this even matter for Fonts?  You can still simply open the font file in 
Fontforge (a free software font editor) and change it like any other font.  
It's not like a program binary where editing the binary is much more 
complicated than editing the source.

I mean if they hadn't published the source (their editor files) at all then 
would it still have ended in contrib?

Regards,
Rüdiger


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Bug#724629: [Pkg-fonts-devel] Package for Fira Sans and Fira Mono

[Paul Wise]

On Sat, May 31, 2014 at 6:03 PM, Rüdiger Sonderfeld wrote:

 Does this even matter for Fonts?

Yes:

https://lists.debian.org/1948618.u6YZvnFvaf@scott-latitude-e6320

 You can still simply open the font file in
 Fontforge (a free software font editor) and change it like any other font.
 It's not like a program binary where editing the binary is much more
 complicated than editing the source.

Editing executable code isn't that hard any more either with tools
like IDA but we still require source code for them.

http://bcmon.blogspot.com/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interactive_Disassembler

 I mean if they hadn't published the source (their editor files) at all then
 would it still have ended in contrib?

It depends on how responsible the people packaging it are and how many
questions the ftp-masters raised when looking at the initial package.

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Bug#724629: [Pkg-fonts-devel] Package for Fira Sans and Fira Mono

[Paul Wise]

On Sun, Apr 27, 2014 at 2:25 AM, Rüdiger Sonderfeld wrote:

 I've created a package for the Fira Sans and Fira Mono fonts.  They are the
 new font for Mozilla Firefox OS and were created by Erik Spiekermann et.al.
 The license is SIL OFL Version 1.1.

I discovered that:

Mozilla are not distributing the source for these fonts. The source is
available though, see these sites:

http://www.donotlick.com/2014/05/23/try-out-fira-sans-a-free-open-source-typeface-commissioned-by-mozilla/
http://dev.carrois.com/fira-3-1/

The source can only be converted to a TrueType font using a
proprietary program that only runs on Macs. This means that Fira is
not suitable for Debian main and must be uploaded to Debian contrib
instead.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7793735
http://www.glyphsapp.com/

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bye,
pabs

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