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

[Christian PERRIER]

Quoting Rüdiger Sonderfeld (ruediger at c-plusplus.de):
> On Monday 19 May 2014 06:04:38 Christian PERRIER wrote:
> > Well, my suggestion now would be moving/copying the packaging git tree
> > on alioth, under /git/pkg-fonts. Then one of us with upload rights may
> > do the final checks on the package then upload it.
> 
> I have requested membership of the fonts group on alioth a while ago but 
> haven't heard anything back since then.

Well, it seems that your request was validated (probably by me). In
such case, I guess that Alioth warns you so I usually never confirm
the action.

Anyway, you are part of the team and therefore you can add stuff in
our git repositories.

> 
> I've also created a package for the Fell type fonts, which I'd like to move to 
> alioth if there is interest: https://github.com/ruediger/fonts-im-fell
> 
> The Fell types are font types from the 17th century.  They are known for their 
> old-style irregularities.  The fonts are released under SIL Open Font License, 
> v1.1 as well and I'm not aware of similar fonts being packaged for Debian.

That'd be welcomed, yes.


> 
> > Still, it would be good to be sure there's someone who closely cares
> > for the package (follow bugs, upstream, etc.) which is something you
> > can continue doing if you're motivated for this, Rüdiger. I would then
> > recommend subscribing to the mailing list.
> 
> I would continue working on the package.  But I'd appreciate if someone with 
> more experience in Debian packaging could assist me.  I'm rather new to all of 
> this.


That's certainly what the team is about..:-)


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