Re: About packaging of ruby-gemoji

[Youhei SASAKI <uwabami@gfd-dennou.org>]

Hi,

I'll create single package ruby-gemoji as contrib, and patched out gemoji dependency from tDiary.

Thanks for discussion. 

Best wishes,
Youhei

2015/11/26 wrote:
>Dear Antonio, Cédric,
>
>Sorry for late response and thanks for reply.
>
>On Sat, 12 Sep 2015 01:01:47 +0900,
>Antonio Terceiro <terceiro@debian.org> wrote:
>>
>> On Fri, Sep 11, 2015 at 02:46:55PM +0200, Cédric Boutillier wrote:
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > On Thu, Sep 10, 2015 at 11:54:27PM +0900, Youhei SASAKI wrote:
>> > > I have a question about the "section" of
>ruby-gemoji-image-installer.  I
>> > > plan to create this package is under some kind of DFSG-Free
>license
>> > > (maybe Expat).  Is it "main" or "contrib"? I don't plan to
>execute this
>> > > script by postinst, execute by someone who want to use such
>"non-free"
>> > > images.
>> >
>> > I think it is "contrib", like flashplugin-installer or
>> > game-data-packager.
>>
>> And since ruby-gemoji will effectively depend on it, it would also
>> need to go into contrib.
>
>Partialy, Yes.
>
>This package provides methods String <-> Unicode font mapping,
>e.g. :
>     Emoji.find_by_unicode("\u{1f604}")
>     Emoji.find_by_alias('smile')
>
>These methods don't need actual emoji {font,image} sets and codes are
>under MIT/X11.
>
>But gemoji provides installer which install all (include non-free)
>images into the directory user wants. This methods needs actucal emoji
>image sets.
>
>Thus, I plan to create two package, one is string to unicode mapping,
>another is installer for the user who want to use original, non-free
>image sets.
>
>> There are more than one freely licensed emoji sets, a quick google
>> search brings up:
>
>Yes I konw. But I don't need real {font,image} sets, for new upstream
>release "tDiary".
>Hmm...
>
>> I would rather see effort in getting one of those into Debian, and
>> encouraging upstreams to use that instead.
>
>I agree. I think so, and I'll contact upstream.
>
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>Youhei SASAKI <uwabami@gfd-dennou.org>
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