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

[Julien Cristau]

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.

Cheers,
Julien