Re: fonts-agave_35-1_amd64.changes is NEW

[Gürkan Myczko <gurkan@phys.ethz.ch>]

On 08/12/2020 08:56, Fabian Greffrath wrote:
> Am 2020-12-08 07:12, schrieb Gürkan Myczko:
>> Welcome, meanwhile I added this link to wiki.d.o/F/M:
>> https://repology.org/projects/?search=fonts%3A&maintainer=&category=&inrepo=&notinrepo=debian_unstable&repos=&families=&repos_newest=&families_newest=
>>
> 
> Alright, but what do I see here? Fonts that are packaged elsewhere but
> not yet in Debian?

Yes exactly. Great place to find good fonts that others have, but we don't.

>> It really is intersting, worth a read:
>> https://b.agaric.net/page/agave
> 
> This is exactly what made me excited about the font! It is designed with
> strict mathematical logic in mind. The restrictions (every length is a
> power of 2, every ratio is the golden ratio) may seem arbitrary, but
> sometimes you achieve the best results for your project if the
> boundaries are clear from the beginning (c.f. Chocolate Doom).

+1

>> And thanks for fonts-ocr-b (my previous favourite terminal font). Is the
>> situation about their ocr-a source unchanged? My package fonts-ocr-a
>> hasn't gotten any updates, I've tried to compare glyphscount on yours
>> and mine, and I thought yours had more (but I'd need to recheck)
> 
> I am afraid nothing has changed there yet, license wise. I am not even
> sure anymore what was the problem with the OCR-A sources in the first
> place...

Thanks for the follow up mail for checking the current state. Pity...
no worries though we still have the fonts-ocr-a from another author
which conforms DFSG...

Cheers,

> Cheers,
> 
>  - Fabian