Bug#849602: not a bug

[Mike Hommey]

On Wed, Jan 04, 2017 at 10:24:06PM +0530, shirish शिरीष wrote:
> at bottom :-
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> On 04/01/2017, Patrick Mutwiri <patwiri at gmail.com> wrote:
> > thats how fonts are installed.
> >
> >
> > this is not a bug.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > *Kind Regards,*
> >
> >
> > Patrick Mutwiri / _dev
> >
> > +254 727 542 899
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> > Nairobi, Kenya
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> > http://patric.xyz
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> > <https://instagram.com/patric_mutwiri> [image: Github]
> > <https://github.com/patricmutwiri> [image: Stack Overflow]
> > <http://stackoverflow.com/users/3012938/patrick-mutwiri>
> >
> 
> It is a bug exactly because of the way Jonas has described. If there
> has to be a font which needs to be installed, it should be installed
> system-wide where other packages could also use the font if they
> wanted/needed.
> 
> Having it installed it system-wide with a symlink to a custom location
> is how it has been done for a long time and do not need see a need to
> have it special-cased just because it's mozilla.
> 
> The font should be installed and be available .
> 
> I just tried -
> 
> └─[$] fc-list | grep emoji
>      [$]
> 
> and as can be seen it didn't give any output.
> 
> This has also been shared in debian-policy
> https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-customized-programs.html#s11.8.5
> 
> Hope the above gives a bit more insight why we think it's an issue.

I'll gladly symlink to a system font if it exists, but I'm not going to
have firefox provide an EmojiOne font package, because it's a separate
project and there's no reason one of the things that uses it provides it.

I'm also not interested in maintaining one more package.

So please feel free to file a RFP.

Mike