Quoting Julien Cristau (2017-11-11 13:22:39) > 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.
I thought that Policy section was regarding packages providing fonts _usable_ generally, which I believe applies in this case: Emoji fonts is not specific to Firefox, nor is e.g. the encoding of this specific font. - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private
