hello Xavier,

Xavier <[email protected]> writes:
> Le 04/10/2020 à 18:12, Felix Natter a écrit :
>> hi Debian-js,
>> 
>> unfortunately, twemoji (SVGs for unicode emojis open sourced by
>> twitter) contains a generated file without source:
>>   https://github.com/twitter/twemoji-parser/blob/master/src/lib/regex.js
>
> File says: "This file is generated by source/emoji/scripts/generate.sh"

Yes, this information is outdated. generated.sh does exist neither in
twemoji nor in twemoji-parser. That's why I asked twitter, and they
replied it's a non-open-source scala library that generates the regex:

>> Justine De Caires <[email protected]> wrote:
>> "Unfortunately, the generating script for that regex is an entire
>> internal library written in Scala which isn't set up to be easily
>> open-sourced. It's definitely something we would like to open source in
>> the future, but not something we have the resources to do right now (or
>> even within the next few months)."
>> 
>> If you agree then I will package twemoji.js for non-free, and generate a
>> separate binary package twemoji-data for main (is that even possible?)
>> I really would like to have the SVGs in main.

What do you think?

Cheers and Best Regards,
-- 
Felix Natter
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