Bug#849602: Bug#881299: thunderbird: Please install EmojiOneMozilla.ttf in /usr/lib/thunderbird/fonts/

[Carsten Schoenert]

Hello Laurent,

On Thu, Nov 09, 2017 at 10:52:09PM +0100, Laurent Bigonville wrote:
> On Thu, 09 Nov 2017 22:04:39 +0100 Laurent Bigonville <bigon at debian.org>
> wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > Could you please install the EmojiOneMozilla.ttf font in
> > /usr/lib/thunderbird/fonts/
> >
> > Currently emoji are not diplayed properly, I just tried on my system and
> > add the file in that location fixed it.
> >
> > Firefox is doing the same by installing that font in
> > /usr/lib/firefox/fonts
> >
> 
> Well actually no
> 
> This seems to be against the debian policy, see bug #849602
> 
> IMHO, firefox should create a package with that font and thunderbird should
> depends on that package

this is a bit overkill in my eyes. Why should thunderbird depend on the
big package of firefox only to get a font? That's currently not the we
should go.

I believe it's better to live here if both packages ship this font
within their packages as long some one is packaging emojione-colr.

So I'd suggest to move this report over to a RFP for emojione-colr and
keep the reports within firefox and thunderbird open with a blocks on
the RFP bug report.

But I wont have time to do such a packaging nor have I a real good
knowledge about font packaging. OTOH emojione-colr hasn't changed
internals for over a year now.

[1] https://github.com/mozilla/emojione-colr

Regards
Carsten