[Pkg-fonts-devel] Bug#982468: Bug#982468: fonts-noto-color-emoji: U+1F52B PISTOL shows a water-spraying toy instead

[Jeremy Bicha]

On Sat, May 8, 2021 at 11:15 AM Adam Borowski <kilobyte at angband.pl> wrote:
> I'm thinking, what if we had a separate package with a fontconfig override
> that corrects this glyph?

I am not interested in that. This package is offered to Debian users
for interoperable human communication among people running a variety
of systems. I don't see a benefit in offering this (rare) variation to
Debian (and derivatives) only since most emoji users do not run
Debian-based systems.

If this isn't satisfactory, you'll need to try to get changes made
upstream. You could ask Unicode to add a new glyph for when a water
pistol just isn't adequate. (But you might not want to tell the
maintainers their opinions are "nasty" or assume that the status quo
is just a US viewpoint.)

Thanks,
Jeremy Bicha