Subject: Re: [bug#27958] [fonts] Add font-fira-sans

From: Leo Famulari <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2017 14:26:59 -0500

On Fri, Aug 04, 2017 at 07:24:28PM +0000, ng0 wrote:
> This is not the canonical upstream source. But the upstream
> source bundles many pdf files (one for each variant I assume) and
> has a layout which makes it impossible to use our font-build-system.
> 
> Mozilla (where the upstream team works with), size: 90.2MiB
> Upstream: 96.6MiB
> 
> Is it still acceptable for us to use github in this case?
> 
> Upstream source is https://carrois.com/typefaces/FiraSans/#!layout=editor
> in case anyone wants to take a look.
> 
> The appended patch uses the github of mozilla as source.

We already fetch Fira Mono from Mozilla, so I'd say this is fine for
now. We can always change it later.

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> From e4c81044bf483891c57a3e7b162baee58f08e526 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: ng0 <[email-masked]>
> Date: Fri, 4 Aug 2017 19:13:51 +0000
> Subject: [PATCH] gnu: add font-fira-sans.
> 
> * gnu/packages/fonts.scm (font-fira-sans): New variable.

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