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RFP: fonts-fira -- sans-serif font family released with FirefoxOS

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Message #5 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Timothy Allen <thristian@gmail.com>

To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>

Subject: RFP: fonts-fira -- sans-serif font family released with FirefoxOS

Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2013 08:59:25 +1000

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist

* Package name    : fonts-fira
  Version         : 1.0
  Upstream Author : Mozilla
* URL             : https://github.com/mozilla/Fira
* License         : SIL Open Font Licence
  Programming Lang: N/A
  Description     : sans-serif font family released with FirefoxOS

Message #10 received at 724629@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Tim <aim.tim@ya.ru>

To: 724629@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: RFP: fonts-fira -- sans-serif font family released with FirefoxOS

Date: Sun, 09 Mar 2014 04:41:59 +0200

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Any progress?

*Download*
The Fira font family comes in a Sans Serif with 4 weights (light, 
regular, medium and bold) all accompanied by italic styles. The package 
also includes a Mono Spaced variant with 2 weights (regular and bold).
http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/styleguide/products/firefox-os/typeface/

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Message #15 received at 724629@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Rüdiger Sonderfeld <ruediger@c-plusplus.de>

To: 724629@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: RFP: fonts-fira -- sans-serif font family released with FirefoxOS

Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2014 12:40:12 +0200

Hello,
I've created a package for fonts-fira.  I tried to contact the pkg-fonts-devel 
mailinglist.  But it seems my message was spam filtered.

The package is here https://github.com/ruediger/fonts-fira at the moment and 
can be build via "debuild -us -uc -A".  I wish to move it upstream into the 
Debian Fonts project if there is interest.  I however don't know what other 
steps are required to do that.

Regards,
Rüdiger

Message #20 received at 724629@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org>

To: pkg-fonts-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org, 724629@bugs.debian.org, Rüdiger Sonderfeld <ruediger@c-plusplus.de>

Subject: Re: [Pkg-fonts-devel] Package for Fira Sans and Fira Mono

Date: Sat, 31 May 2014 11:34:59 +0800

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/

-- 
bye,
pabs

http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise

Message #25 received at 724629@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Rüdiger Sonderfeld <ruediger@c-plusplus.de>

To: pkg-fonts-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org

Cc: Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org>, 724629@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: [Pkg-fonts-devel] Package for Fira Sans and Fira Mono

Date: Sat, 31 May 2014 12:03:07 +0200

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

Message #30 received at 724629@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org>

To: Rüdiger Sonderfeld <ruediger@c-plusplus.de>

Cc: pkg-fonts-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org, 724629@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: [Pkg-fonts-devel] Package for Fira Sans and Fira Mono

Date: Sat, 31 May 2014 18:13:23 +0800

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.

-- 
bye,
pabs

http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise

Message #35 received at 724629@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Rüdiger Sonderfeld <ruediger@c-plusplus.de>

To: pkg-fonts-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org

Cc: Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org>, 724629@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: [Pkg-fonts-devel] Package for Fira Sans and Fira Mono

Date: Tue, 03 Jun 2014 15:00:33 +0200

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

Message #40 received at 724629@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Rüdiger Sonderfeld <ruediger@c-plusplus.de>

To: pkg-fonts-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org

Cc: Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org>, 724629@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: [Pkg-fonts-devel] Package for Fira Sans and Fira Mono

Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2014 00:26 +0200

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

Message #45 received at 724629@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org>

To: Rüdiger Sonderfeld <ruediger@c-plusplus.de>

Cc: pkg-fonts-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org, 724629@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: [Pkg-fonts-devel] Package for Fira Sans and Fira Mono

Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2014 09:45:38 +0800

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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.

-- 
bye,
pabs

http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise

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Message #50 received at 724629@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Joachim Breitner <nomeata@debian.org>

To: 724629@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: [Pkg-fonts-devel] Package for Fira Sans and Fira Mono

Date: Tue, 02 Aug 2016 15:57:17 -0400

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Hi,

On Mon, 23 Jun 2014 09:45:38 +0800 Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org> 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


-- 
Joachim “nomeata” Breitner
Debian Developer
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  XMPP: nomeata@joachim-breitner.de • GPG-Key: 0xF0FBF51F
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Message #55 received at 724629@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Stefan Tatschner <rumpelsepp@sevenbyte.org>

To: 724629@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: [Pkg-fonts-devel] Package for Fira Sans and Fira Mono

Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2017 21:57:47 +0100

On Tue, 02 Aug 2016 15:57:17 -0400 Joachim Breitner <nomeata@debian.org>
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

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Message #70 received at 724629@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Yves-Alexis Perez <corsac@debian.org>

To: 724629@bugs.debian.org, Joachim Breitner <nomeata@debian.org>, Stefan Tatschner <rumpelsepp@sevenbyte.org>

Cc: Fabian Greffrath <fabian@greffrath.com>, Rodolphe PELLOUX-PRAYER <rodolphe@damsy.net>

Subject: Re: [Pkg-fonts-devel] Package for Fira Sans and Fira Mono

Date: Thu, 02 Nov 2017 17:09:31 +0100

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On Sun, 29 Jan 2017 21:57:47 +0100 Stefan Tatschner <rumpelsepp@sevenbyte.org>
wrote:
> On Tue, 02 Aug 2016 15:57:17 -0400 Joachim Breitner <nomeata@debian.org>
> 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,
-- 
Yves-Alexis

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Message #75 received at 724629@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Fabian Greffrath <fabian@debian.org>

To: Yves-Alexis Perez <corsac@debian.org>, 724629@bugs.debian.org, Joachim Breitner <nomeata@debian.org>, Stefan Tatschner <rumpelsepp@sevenbyte.org>

Cc: Rodolphe PELLOUX-PRAYER <rodolphe@damsy.net>

Subject: Re: [Pkg-fonts-devel] Package for Fira Sans and Fira Mono

Date: Thu, 02 Nov 2017 19:27:04 +0100

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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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Message #80 received at 724629@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Gürkan Myczko <gurkan@phys.ethz.ch>

To: 803690@bugs.debian.org, 724629@bugs.debian.org, 944202@bugs.debian.org

Subject: font packaging

Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2021 10:38:32 +0100

Once fnt is accepted from NEW QUEUE *

you could also just run
fnt install pompiere
fnt install recursive
fnt install firamono
fnt install firasans
fnt install firasanscondensed
fnt install firasansextracondensed

* https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=984461
  https://ftp-master.debian.org/new.html

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