Bug#849602: firefox: font EmojiOne must be installed below /usr/share/fonts

[Jonas Smedegaard]

Quoting Julien Cristau (2017-11-11 13:22:39)
> Control: severity -1 wishlist
> 
> On Thu, Dec 29, 2016 at 03:44:07 +0100, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
> 
> > Package: firefox
> > Version: 50.1.0-1
> > Severity: serious
> > Justification: Policy 11.8.5
> > 
> > Firefox 50 and newer ships with the font EmojiOne.
> > 
> > According to Debian Policy, fonts must be made generally available, by
> > installing it below /usr/share/fonts and then (if needed) symlinking to
> > the custom location expected by the application.
> > 
> Policy 11.8.5 is regarding packages providing fonts for general usage,
> and in particular was written for a time where fonts had to be made
> available to the X server or font server, see footnote [1] in that
> section.  The same reasoning does not apply to this case.

I thought that Policy section was regarding packages providing fonts 
_usable_ generally, which I believe applies in this case: Emoji fonts is 
not specific to Firefox, nor is e.g. the encoding of this specific font.


 - Jonas

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