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

[Paul Wise]

On Sat, May 31, 2014 at 6:03 PM, Rüdiger Sonderfeld wrote:

> Does this even matter for Fonts?

Yes:

https://lists.debian.org/1948618.u6YZvnFvaf@scott-latitude-e6320

> You can still simply open the font file in
> Fontforge (a free software font editor) and change it like any other font.
> It's not like a program binary where editing the binary is much more
> complicated than editing the source.

Editing executable code isn't that hard any more either with tools
like IDA but we still require source code for them.

http://bcmon.blogspot.com/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interactive_Disassembler

> I mean if they hadn't published the "source" (their editor files) at all then
> would it still have ended in contrib?

It depends on how responsible the people packaging it are and how many
questions the ftp-masters raised when looking at the initial package.

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pabs

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