On Sat, Nov 11, 2017 at 12:18:55PM +0100, Laurent Bigonville wrote: > > this is a bit overkill in my eyes. Why should thunderbird depend on the > > big package of firefox only to get a font? That's currently not the we > > should go. > > Well I was talking about creating an other binary package built fron > firefore(-esr?) source package
O.k. then it was a bit misleading. > > I believe it's better to live here if both packages ship this font > > within their packages as long some one is packaging emojione-colr. > > Good for me. > > Note that with fonts-noto-color-emoji and the newer version of fontconfig > arriving in unstable, the emoji displayed by thunderbird are oversized now. > > The good workaround is to install that EmojiOneMozilla.ttf in > /usr/lib/thunderbird/fonts/. we can add the font to the next Thunderbird version of course. 52.5.0 is targeted for Monday 13th November 2017, this is right next week. A bit depending on how fast the Mozilla people can make the release happen we quite near this upstream release. I'm trying also to prepare some changes into a upload for experimental, so it's likely happen at all in the next days. > This will become a more pressing problem in a few days (fontconfig is > waiting in the deferred queue) Good to know, we will see what wil happen first. Regards Carsten