Bug#849042: RFP: fonts-noto-emoji -- "No Tofu" emoji font

[Taylor Kline <taylor.kline@utexas.edu>]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist

* Package name    : fonts-noto-emoji
  Upstream Author : googlei18n
* URL             : https://github.com/googlei18n/noto-emoji
* License         : SIL Open Font License v1.1 (fonts) and Apache v2.0 (tools and image resources).
  Programming Lang: Python, C
  Description     : "No Tofu" emoji font

Emoji are an extremely common form of expression in modern
communication, yet the present options for displaying them in Debian are
hacky at best. For example, this effort
https://github.com/googlei18n/noto-emoji will display emoji correctly in
Firefox but will only be black-and-white system-wide (so not in Chrome). Similarly,
ttf-ancient-fonts can be installed for very ugly, B&W emoji.

The best solution I've currently found is based on this post:
http://stdio.tumblr.com/post/114082931782
and involves: downloading NotoColorEmoji.ttf from the noto-fonts Android
git repository, copying it to /usr/share/fonts/truetype/, and creating a
/etc/fonts/conf.d/01-notoemoji.conf with the contents:
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM "fonts.dtd">
<fontconfig>

  <match target="scan">
    <test name="family">
      <string>Noto Color Emoji</string>
    </test>
    <edit name="scalable" mode="assign">
      <bool>true</bool>
    </edit>
  </match>

</fontconfig>

However, NotoColorEmoji can be built from its source at
https://github.com/googlei18n/noto-emoji and it has a very friendly
license. It would be great to have the NotoColorEmoji font as a Debian
package to be easily installed and automatically configured.