[Pkg-javascript-devel] Bug#878875: Packaging twemoji

[Felix Natter]

Control: retitle -1 RFP: twemoji -- Open-sourced Twitter emoji images

hello Debian developers,

twemoji contains SVGs for twitter emojis as well as javascript
code to generate this in web/node.js apps.

Unfortunately, I cannot package all of twemoji, because it has a
generated file without source:
  https://github.com/twitter/twemoji-parser/blob/master/src/lib/regex.js

I contacted a twitter developer (2020) [1] and she said that it could
take a while until they publish the relevant library.

[1] Justine De Caires jdecaires at twitter.com

It is not possible to have a mixture of main/non-free binary packages,
so it not possible to put the SVGs in main, and debian-js/debian-fonts
have expressed no interest in just a package with the SVGs.

  https://alioth-lists.debian.net/pipermail/pkg-javascript-devel/2020-October/045115.html

I might still package this (the SVGs only) later if I get to upgrade
freeplane>=1.8 (which is blocked by gradle).

Cheers and Best Regards,
--
Felix Natter