[Pkg-fonts-devel] RFS: fonts-firacode/1.200-1 [ITP]

[Rodolphe PELLOUX-PRAYER]

Le mardi 27 septembre 2016 à 18:00 +0200, Fabian Greffrath a écrit :
> 1) Please state somewhere (either in the package description or in
> README.Debian, you decide) that this font is expected to work in most
> text editors but won't work in most (especially VTE-based) terminal
> emulators. This will prevent bad surprises for users with higher
> expectations.

I added few lines in package description (probably most visible for new
users).

> 2) I believe that uploading the package to contrib is kind of over-
> cautious, although I see no problem with it per se. We already have
> many free fonts in Debian main that are only available in binary
> formats (mostly TTF or OTF) and the license does not impose any
> restrictions on the format for redistribution.

Ok, section is now 'fonts' instead of 'contrib/fonts'. I moved the
previous content of README.Debian in copyright as well.

> 3) Isn't installing both WOFF and WOFF2 formats somehow redundant (I
> really have no clue here)?

It seems that WOFF2 is only supported by newest browser (http://caniuse
.com/#feat=woff2).

> Once these issues are clarified, I'll upload the package (if not,
> beat me to it).

New version is on https://mentors.debian.net/package/fonts-firacode
The git repo is (for now, as I dont have access to anonscm.d.o) on http
s://gitlab.com/RoPP/fonts-firacode

Rodolphe
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