Bug#835197: RFP: fonts-eosrei-emojione
On Sun, Nov 5, 2017 at 11:48 AM, Jeremy Bicha <jbicha@debian.org> wrote:
> Fedora 27 includes the Noto emoji by default.
I was wrong here. Fedora 27 includes the Emoji One font by default.
Although the Fedora package is currently named eosrei-emojione-fonts,
the font actually comes straight from Emoji One's github and not from
eosrei's github. The font provided by eosrei's github will not work
for the GNOME feature and is also not the version of Emoji One
recommended by Mozilla.
I also found that Ubuntu already packaged fonts-emojione. Like the
Fedora package, it simply installs the pre-compiled ttf. To actually
build fully from source requires pacakging several node-grunt
packages.
On the other hand, Emoji Two isn't yet buildable for the GNOME
feature. The Fedora developers would like to get this figured out
within a year because it's bad to be stuck on an old unmaintained
emoji font when new emoji are still being added to the Standard every
year. One proposal is for it reuse the nototools build system used by
fonts-noto-color-emoji. In that case, we wouldn't need to package the
node packages.
The Emoji One package in Fedora and Ubuntu doesn't support the Mozilla
feature. See https://bugs.debian.org/849602 for more details.
So someone is welcome to work on packaging Emoji One while we wait for
Emoji Two. If someone wants to work on that, I recommend cloning this
bug.
Thanks,
Jeremy Bicha
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