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fonts-noto-color-emoji package

Missing some unicode 13 emojis

Bug #1870794 reported by fcole90
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
fonts-noto-color-emoji (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Low
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Bug Description

The current version is missing some emojis which are already available upstream. I didn't check them all but it seems they are v13 emojis.

You can see the missing ones as tofu from here: https://unicode.org/emoji/charts/full-emoji-list.html

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 20.04
Package: fonts-noto-color-emoji 0~20191119-1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.4.0-21.25-generic 5.4.27
Uname: Linux 5.4.0-21-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu22
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: GNOME
Date: Sat Apr 4 17:25:41 2020
Dependencies:

InstallationDate: Installed on 2020-04-03 (0 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 20.04 LTS "Focal Fossa" - Beta amd64 (20200401)
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: fonts-noto-color-emoji
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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fcole90 (fcole90) wrote :
Sebastien Bacher (seb128)
Changed in fonts-noto-color-emoji (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Low
status: New → Confirmed
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Jeremy Bícha (jbicha) wrote :

Historically, Google tends to release its annual Unicode/Emoji update for this font around the time it releases the next major version of Android. Android 11 is expected in the 3rd quarter of 2020. We probably will push the update to Ubuntu 20.04 LTS then.

summary: - missing some emojis
+ Update for Unicode 13
Jeremy Bícha (jbicha)
tags: added: groovy upgrade-software-version
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Jeremy Bícha (jbicha) wrote : Re: Update for Unicode 13

The Emoji font was updated for Ubuntu 20.10 which will be released later this month.

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/fonts-noto-color-emoji/0~20200916-1

Someone might backport this update to Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. To get full support for new emoji "sequences", this will also need to be backported:
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/pango/-/merge_requests/174

It's probably worth grabbing this commit too:
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/pango/-/commit/b1718281f

Changed in fonts-noto-color-emoji (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Fix Released
Changed in fonts-noto-color-emoji (Ubuntu Focal):
status: New → Triaged
importance: Undecided → Low
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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

untargetting for focal for now since there is no assignee, would still be nice to SRU but desktop decided to not accepted as a active nomination for now

no longer affects: fonts-noto-color-emoji (Ubuntu Focal)
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Jeremy Bícha (jbicha) wrote :

The workflow does have a bit of an awkward consequence.

It means that bugs that affect a stable release but are fixed in a newer release (or development series) are marked as Fix Released, unless someone volunteers to fix the bug quickly.

I believe it's also harder for users to browse and find bugs like this that affect them on the supported release they are running.

So I think your workflow works fine during the development cycle but I don't know if it's ideal for stable releases.

Yes, I know y'all have had this workflow for years. I have been uncomfortable with it for years too. 😉

Anyway, I'm not yet volunteering to do this SRU.

fcole90 (fcole90)
summary: - Update for Unicode 13
+ Missing some unicode 13 emojis
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fcole90 (fcole90) wrote :

If I get it correctly, in order to backport this, including sequences, there should be at least 2 SRU:
- 1 for fonts-noto-color-emoji, with the latest emojis
- 1 for pango, with those 2 commits

Did I get it correctly?

If yes, we could first SRU fonts-noto-color-emoji package and pango later to bring the sequences.

I can check if I can work on that on late next month.

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Marco Trevisan (Treviño) (3v1n0) wrote :

FYI SRU is now handled as part of https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/fonts-noto-color-emoji/+bug/1926047

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