[bug#27958] [fonts] Add font-fira-sans

[ng0 <ng0@n0.is>]

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No comment since August. Can someone review this please?

Thanks.
ng0 transcribed 3.4K bytes:
> 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.
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> From e4c81044bf483891c57a3e7b162baee58f08e526 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: ng0 <ng0@infotropique.org>
> 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.
> ---
>  gnu/packages/fonts.scm | 18 ++++++++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 18 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/gnu/packages/fonts.scm b/gnu/packages/fonts.scm
> index 51073eff9..e009c6a67 100644
> --- a/gnu/packages/fonts.scm
> +++ b/gnu/packages/fonts.scm
> @@ -825,6 +825,24 @@ designed to work well in user interface environments.")
>      (description "This is the typeface used by Mozilla in Firefox OS.")
>      (license license:silofl1.1)))
>  
> +(define-public font-fira-sans
> +  (package
> +    (name "font-fira-sans")
> +    (version "4.202")
> +    (source (origin
> +              (method url-fetch)
> +              (uri (string-append "https://github.com/mozilla/Fira/archive/"
> +                                  version ".tar.gz"))
> +              (file-name (string-append name "-" version ".tar.gz"))
> +              (sha256
> +               (base32
> +                "1r6zdnqqp4bgq5nmgqbj0vvj7x1h9w912851ggbl9wc7fdjnjqnq"))))
> +    (build-system font-build-system)
> +    (home-page "http://mozilla.github.io/Fira/")
> +    (synopsis "Mozilla's Fira Sans Font")
> +    (description "This is the typeface used by Mozilla in Firefox OS.")
> +    (license license:silofl1.1)))
> +
>  (define-public font-awesome
>    (package
>     (name "font-awesome")
> -- 
> 2.13.4
> 




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