Bug 2308744 - Upgrade Fira Sans to version 4.301 (post-Mozilla involvement) and package FiraGO
Summary: Upgrade Fira Sans to version 4.301 (post-Mozilla involvement) and package FiraGO
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Status: CLOSED EOL
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: mozilla-fira-fonts
Version: 40
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
unspecified
medium
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Assignee: Mateus Rodrigues Costa
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2024-08-30 18:36 UTC by Mateus Rodrigues Costa
Modified: 2025-05-21 08:41 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2025-05-20 19:31:08 UTC
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Description Mateus Rodrigues Costa 2024-08-30 18:36:30 UTC
From https://bboxtype.com/fira/ :

> Originally designed as a typeface for the Mozilla OS, Fira Sans has developed towards a standalone Open Font project. In 2012, we designed the firstversion of Fira in cooperation with Erik Spiekermann and Mozilla. Over the next years, Fira covered more and more languages and provided further weights and styles.
> In 2016, with version 4.2, Mozilla decided to not put effort into the project anymore and in fact quit (please note that their Git is not up to date). Since 2016, we advance the project with the help of different partners. Fira Sans 4.3 will presumably be the last version. All upcoming extensions will be based on FiraGO.

Essentially Mozilla stopped working on Fira Sans but it was kept being worked on by bBox Type GmbH.

This might also make a opportunity to migrate to the Fira Mono version by bBox Type GmbH and also package FiraGo which isn't packaged yet.

For more info about Fira GO vs Fira Sans: https://bboxtype.com/downloads/Projects/FiraGO_FiraSans_180109.pdf

Migrating to the bBox Type versions might requiring renaming of the package to drop the "mozilla" prefix, as Mozilla is not involved anymore.

Reproducible: Always




This is essentially a request to move the Fira Sans e Fira Mono fonts from the Mozilla upstream to the bBox Type upstream.
As an extra it's also a request to separately start packaging FiraGO, an extended version of Fira Sans with improved language support.

Comment 1 Mateus Rodrigues Costa 2024-09-15 14:25:19 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 2312011 ***

Comment 2 Mateus Rodrigues Costa 2025-04-15 21:00:11 UTC
Since the other bug is about the Fira Sans update, this one will be repurposed to only handle the FiraGo packaging.

Comment 3 Aoife Moloney 2025-04-28 13:42:54 UTC
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Comment 4 Aoife Moloney 2025-05-20 19:31:08 UTC
Fedora Linux 40 entered end-of-life (EOL) status on 2025-05-13.

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Comment 5 Hasshu 2025-05-21 08:41:45 UTC
Mateus, any updates?


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