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

[Adam Borowski]

On Sat, Aug 27, 2016 at 12:56:32PM +0200, Rodolphe PELLOUX-PRAYER wrote:
> I am looking for a sponsor for my package "fonts-firacode"
> 
>  * URL             : https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode
> https://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/contrib/f/fonts-firacode/fonts-firacode_1.200-1.dsc

The packaging itself builds flawlessly.

Alas, in use, the font severely corrupts text:
https://angband.pl/tmp/firacode_corrupt.png

It would be nice if you could mention somewhere why the font isn't built
from sources (and thus is in contrib).

I'm not sure if shipping both ttf and otf is needed, they are redundant for
most uses.

Shipping EOT is probably a waste of space -- it's not supported anywhere but
Internet Explorer, not even on Edge.  And there's no non-EOLed version of MSIE
that doesn't support WOFF.


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