Bug#851339: [Pkg-fonts-devel] Bug#851339: fonts-firacode: package in Debian with non-Debian build dependencies

2017-01-21 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, 2017-01-21 at 12:39 +0100, Fabian Greffrath wrote: > I find this by far the most convincing argument, although I still find > it difficult to accept that it should make a difference for Debian as a > mere downstream distributor. We provide many packages with fonts in OTF > format and

Bug#851339: [Pkg-fonts-devel] Bug#851339: fonts-firacode: package in Debian with non-Debian build dependencies

2017-01-21 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Quoting Fabian Greffrath (2017-01-21 12:39:17) >> FYI, you are mistaken that C code is always "source". C is sometimes >> generated from other forms, via transpilers or lexer generators etc. >> It can also be obfuscated C code from the real C source (cf #383465). >> [...] >> So like C, OTF can

Bug#851339: [Pkg-fonts-devel] Bug#851339: fonts-firacode: package in Debian with non-Debian build dependencies

2017-01-17 Thread Fabian Greffrath
Dear Ben, thank you very much for your bug report. However, I believe you are wrong with applying RC severity to this issue and I have added FTP-Masters to CC in the hope for clarification. Ben Finney wrote: > I see now that this refers to a proprietary program named Glyphs, as a > program used