bug#27123: fonts: more changes to font-build-system, one follow up commit

[ng0]

Arun Isaac transcribed 0.7K bytes:
> 
> Thanks for the patches! Patches 1, 3 and 4 LGTM.

Ok.

> Patch 2...
> 
> > * gnu/packages/fonts.scm (font-awesome)[source]: Switch to the source on 
> > github as the previous zip file
> > is updated in place, resulting in a changed hash sum.
> 
> This commit message line is too long. On emacs, you can wrap it to the
> next line with `fill-paragraph'.

Yeah, git commit message has no limit, otherwise I wrap at 70.

> The contents of the zip archive are updated in place without changing
> the version number? Is that what you mean by "in place"?
> 
> Should we treat this as a one-time accident by upstream? Or have they
> made a habit out of this?
> 
> IMO, we should forgive them this one time, and if they do this again,
> then we can move to their github release archive. WDYT?
> 

It looks like this is done regulary, at least from their setup.

The 'assets' directory on the website where the zip file is
contained in comes from the tar.gz source.
I don't really think this patch should be applied, but we
should monitor the situation.
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