Debian Bug report logs - #950152
ITP: fonts-jetbrains-mono -- free and open-source typeface for developers

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

From: Antoine Beaupre <anarcat@debian.org>

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

Subject: RFP: fonts-jetbrains-mono -- a typeface for developers

Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2020 09:43:49 -0500

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist

* Package name    : fonts-jetbrains-mono
  Version         : 1.0.2
  Upstream Author : Philipp Nurullin
* URL             : https://github.com/JetBrains/JetBrainsMono
* License         : Apache-2
  Programming Lang: TTF
  Description     : a typeface for developers

The URL above also has a "source" directory which ships "FontLab 6"
files (VFC and VFJ):

https://help.fontlab.com/fontlab-vi/Font-Formats/

I am not sure those can be edited with free software, but I am
wondering if the TTF is sufficient to fulfill DFSG requirements.

I don't have a good long description - kind of hard to do that by text
when fonts are so visual. 

But the main website does give a very good idea of the thing:

https://www.jetbrains.com/lp/mono/

There is obviously quite a few similar "programmer" fonts out
there. Looking in my archives, I find this in Debian:

 * fonts-firacode: ligatures
 * fonts-hack-*: no ligatures
 * fonts-hermit: no ligatures, smaller
 * fonts-monoid: ligatures, feels much "thinner" than jetbrains

Those are also "programmer fonts" that caught my interest but somehow
didn't land in Debian yet:

 * sudo: https://www.kutilek.de/sudo-font/ personal project, no
   ligatures
 * Iosevka: https://typeof.net/Iosevka/ ligatures, multilingual

... so that's already quite a few more than I expected,
actually. Maybe there's no room for this in Debian? But I'm curious to
hear what others think of this...

Thanks!

Message #10 received at 950152@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org>

To: Antoine Beaupre <anarcat@debian.org>, 950152@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#950152: RFP: fonts-jetbrains-mono -- a typeface for developers

Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2020 01:33:09 +0000

On Wed, Jan 29, 2020 at 2:45 PM Antoine Beaupre wrote:

> The URL above also has a "source" directory which ships "FontLab 6"
> files (VFC and VFJ):
>
> https://help.fontlab.com/fontlab-vi/Font-Formats/
>
> I am not sure those can be edited with free software, but I am
> wondering if the TTF is sufficient to fulfill DFSG requirements.

Debian has no requirements that fonts be editable with free tools.
Debian has no requirements that all autogenerated files in Debian must
be built from source at debian/rules build time. Our only requirement
(which is ftp-master policy) is that it is possible to build from
source using only tools in main. Many packages in Debian violate the
first two items but probably do match the Debian requirement,
unfortunately we don't have a standard way to verify that.

Some other mails of mine on this topic:

https://lists.debian.org/msgid-search/78ab1a8a4d759b8e187b04f291bfb732c6f82b57.camel@debian.org
https://lists.debian.org/msgid-search/CAKTje6E8+8UqMzVrOHdZLFFQ-ucOeATqn2wiZ-ZbrWCqNK0wEQ@mail.gmail.com

--
bye,
pabs

https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise

Message #15 received at 950152@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Antoine Beaupré <anarcat@debian.org>

To: Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org>, 950152@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#950152: RFP: fonts-jetbrains-mono -- a typeface for developers

Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2020 22:55:33 -0500

On 2020-01-30 01:33:09, Paul Wise wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 29, 2020 at 2:45 PM Antoine Beaupre wrote:
>
>> The URL above also has a "source" directory which ships "FontLab 6"
>> files (VFC and VFJ):
>>
>> https://help.fontlab.com/fontlab-vi/Font-Formats/
>>
>> I am not sure those can be edited with free software, but I am
>> wondering if the TTF is sufficient to fulfill DFSG requirements.
>
> Debian has no requirements that fonts be editable with free tools.
> Debian has no requirements that all autogenerated files in Debian must
> be built from source at debian/rules build time. Our only requirement
> (which is ftp-master policy) is that it is possible to build from
> source using only tools in main.

Well that's the real trick isn't it. In this case, could you regenerate
(say) the TTF ("compiled" file) from the VFC file (source file)? I doubt
that would be the case here....

> Many packages in Debian violate the first two items but probably do
> match the Debian requirement, unfortunately we don't have a standard
> way to verify that.
>
> Some other mails of mine on this topic:
>
> https://lists.debian.org/msgid-search/78ab1a8a4d759b8e187b04f291bfb732c6f82b57.camel@debian.org
> https://lists.debian.org/msgid-search/CAKTje6E8+8UqMzVrOHdZLFFQ-ucOeATqn2wiZ-ZbrWCqNK0wEQ@mail.gmail.com

.. yet I see from that second post that "Debian's standards are somewhat
lower, we require source be available and DFSG-freely licensed. In
addition the ftp-master policy (not sure about the rest of Debian) has a
policy that packages be buildable (but not necessarily built) using
tools only in main."

hum.

a.
-- 
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Power attracts the worst and corrupts the best.
                        - Edward Abbey

Message #20 received at 950152@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org>

To: Antoine Beaupré <anarcat@debian.org>, 950152@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#950152: RFP: fonts-jetbrains-mono -- a typeface for developers

Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2020 12:18:57 +0800

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On Wed, 2020-01-29 at 22:55 -0500, Antoine Beaupré wrote:

> Well that's the real trick isn't it. In this case, could you regenerate
> (say) the TTF ("compiled" file) from the VFC file (source file)? I doubt
> that would be the case here....

I also doubt that would be the case, since Fontlab is proprietary and 
thus isn't possible to make available in Debian main.

-- 
bye,
pabs

https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise

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Message #31 received at 952954-close@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Debian FTP Masters <ftpmaster@ftp-master.debian.org>

To: 952954-close@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Bug#952954: fixed in fonts-jetbrains-mono 1.0.4-1

Date: Wed, 07 Oct 2020 21:02:28 +0000

Source: fonts-jetbrains-mono
Source-Version: 1.0.4-1
Done: Romain Porte <debian@microjoe.org>

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
fonts-jetbrains-mono, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.

A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to 952954@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Romain Porte <debian@microjoe.org> (supplier of updated fonts-jetbrains-mono package)

(This message was generated automatically at their request; if you
believe that there is a problem with it please contact the archive
administrators by mailing ftpmaster@ftp-master.debian.org)


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Format: 1.8
Date: Sun, 01 Mar 2020 23:02:23 +0100
Source: fonts-jetbrains-mono
Binary: fonts-jetbrains-mono
Architecture: source all
Version: 1.0.4-1
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Debian Fonts Team <debian-fonts@lists.debian.org>
Changed-By: Romain Porte <debian@microjoe.org>
Description:
 fonts-jetbrains-mono - free and open-source typeface for developers
Closes: 952954
Changes:
 fonts-jetbrains-mono (1.0.4-1) unstable; urgency=medium
 .
   * Initial release (closes: #952954).
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