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

[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 be source or not source, depending on the upstream 
>> project.
>
> 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 while this is acepted as a proper source for some, it 
> is not for others because of upstream design decisions?

I agree it feels weird that some fonts are fine to distribute as-is in 
Debian whereas other fonts using same format cannot - simply because we 
are aware that a different format is used for upstream development.

But I believe this is not a unique oddity.  A more common equivalent is 
makefiles, some of which are hand-written and others are auto-generated.  

"is used as source upstream" and "can be used as source downstream" are 
different things, and I believe Debian Policy talks about the former.


 - Jonas

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