[bug#43125] Re: [PATCH] Add new font APL385 & APL333

[Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name>]

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If you don't find another method, you could upload the source code to
archive.org and make the Guix package fetch from there. We've done that
before to work around this kind of problem.

On Tue, Nov 10, 2020 at 10:15:38PM +0800, Zhu Zihao wrote:
> 
> Sadly I can't contact them, because they leave no contact at the site.
> :(
> 
> I' ll email you if I can find a way to retrieve source
> deterministically, thanks.
> 
> Julien Lepiller writes:
> 
> > Hi,
> >
> > I've tried to apply and build these fonts. Apl 385 applied and built
> > without any issue, but it seems that apl333 sources have changed since
> > you posted your patch.
> >
> > Apparently, they update the archives in-place, which is a bad practice
> > for distros such as ours, since it will break our packaging system at
> > an unknown time in the future. Do you know of any other source for
> > these fonts with versionned archives? Do you know how to contact the
> > author, to ask them for a versionned link?
> >
> > Le Tue, 10 Nov 2020 17:32:46 +0800 (CST),
> > "Zhu Zihao" <all_but_last@163.com> a écrit :
> >
> 
> 
> -- 
> Retrieve my PGP public key: https://meta.sr.ht/~citreu.pgp
> 
> Zihao



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