Bug#849602: not a bug

[shirish शिरीष]

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On 04/01/2017, Patrick Mutwiri <patwiri at gmail.com> wrote:
> thats how fonts are installed.
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> this is not a bug.
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It is a bug exactly because of the way Jonas has described. If there
has to be a font which needs to be installed, it should be installed
system-wide where other packages could also use the font if they
wanted/needed.

Having it installed it system-wide with a symlink to a custom location
is how it has been done for a long time and do not need see a need to
have it special-cased just because it's mozilla.

The font should be installed and be available .

I just tried -

└─[$] fc-list | grep emoji
     [$]

and as can be seen it didn't give any output.

This has also been shared in debian-policy
https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-customized-programs.html#s11.8.5

Hope the above gives a bit more insight why we think it's an issue.

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