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

[Rüdiger Sonderfeld]

Hello Sebastian,

On Wednesday 14 May 2014 20:50:14 Sebastian Bator wrote:
> one additional point: could you write briefly about how the new
> package fits into Debian? Is it used by other packages or provides a
> font type that is not already in Debian? Just one sentence that fira
> is not just an other font similar to dozens. The point is to line out
> the benefit of integrating fira into Debian.
> 
> A few sentences that points to the reason why you packaged fire suffice.

It is a new free font family which so far hasn't been packaged by Debian.  It 
is a font designed for Mozilla Firefox OS and therefore mobile devices.  The 
Fonts are high quality and designed by professional font designers (Erik 
Spiekermann et.al.).

There is also demand for this font: https://bugs.debian.org/724629

> I CCed you, just in case you are not on the List.

Thanks.  I'm not subscribed.

> Am 01.05.2014 22:15 Uhr schrieb Sebastian Bator:
> > Are you using the machine readable copyright format [3]? The
> > copyright file looks this way, but misses some required fields for
> > this format. Furthermore the copyright holder is missing (mozilla
> > foundation I guess). You also want to indicate your Work in the
> > debian/ directory and add a license to it.

I think I fixed all issues.  Except for the copyright holder.  This is sadly 
not specified.  I assume it's Mozilla Foundation.  I've opened an issue but so 
far there hasn't been any feedback: https://github.com/mozilla/Fira/issues/29

Regards,
Rüdiger