[Bug 1746310] [NEW] Drop fonts-symbola from platform?

[Jeremy Bicha]

Public bug reported:

ttf-ancient-fonts-symbola is a recommends in platform.bionic desktop-
common so it's installed for every Ubuntu desktop flavor (Kubuntu,
Lubuntu, Ubuntu, etc.).

It's a transitional package now depending on fonts-symbola.

The package description is
"This package includes the Symbola font, which contains special symbols and emoji characters which are encoded in the Unicode Standard 9.0."

It was added to the seeds in LP: #1137630 explicitly for emoji support.

Ubuntu Desktop (and Ubuntu Budgie and Ubuntu MATE) now include fonts-
noto-color-emoji for this instead.

GTK+ in Ubuntu 18.04 supports color emoji. Qt does not.

fonts-symbola has installed-size 3,178 kB according to apt
fonts-noto-color-emoji has installed-size 7,277 kB

Should we replace fonts-symbola with fonts-noto-color-emoji? Or should
we drop it entirely?

The only other Color Emoji font I expect to be available in Ubuntu soon
is EmojiTwo. EmojiTwo lags behind in supporting the latest emoji
standards.

** Affects: ubuntu-meta (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: bionic

** Description changed:

  ttf-ancient-fonts-symbola is a recommends in platform.bionic desktop-
  common so it's installed for every Ubuntu desktop flavor (Kubuntu,
  Lubuntu, Ubuntu, etc.).
  
  It's a transitional package now depending on fonts-symbola.
  
  The package description is
  "This package includes the Symbola font, which contains special symbols and emoji characters which are encoded in the Unicode Standard 9.0."
  
  It was added to the seeds in LP: #1137630 explicitly for emoji support.
  
  Ubuntu Desktop (and Ubuntu Budgie and Ubuntu MATE) now include fonts-
  noto-color-emoji for this instead.
  
+ GTK+ in Ubuntu 18.04 supports color emoji. Qt does not.
+ 
+ fonts-symbola has installed-size 3,178 kB according to apt
+ fonts-noto-color-emoji has installed-size 7,277 kB
+ 
  Should we replace fonts-symbola with fonts-noto-color-emoji? Or should
  we drop it entirely?
  
  The only other Color Emoji font I expect to be available in Ubuntu soon
  is EmojiTwo. EmojiTwo lags behind in supporting the latest emoji
  standards.

** Tags added: bionic

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Title:
  Drop fonts-symbola from platform?

Status in ubuntu-meta package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  ttf-ancient-fonts-symbola is a recommends in platform.bionic desktop-
  common so it's installed for every Ubuntu desktop flavor (Kubuntu,
  Lubuntu, Ubuntu, etc.).

  It's a transitional package now depending on fonts-symbola.

  The package description is
  "This package includes the Symbola font, which contains special symbols and emoji characters which are encoded in the Unicode Standard 9.0."

  It was added to the seeds in LP: #1137630 explicitly for emoji
  support.

  Ubuntu Desktop (and Ubuntu Budgie and Ubuntu MATE) now include fonts-
  noto-color-emoji for this instead.

  GTK+ in Ubuntu 18.04 supports color emoji. Qt does not.

  fonts-symbola has installed-size 3,178 kB according to apt
  fonts-noto-color-emoji has installed-size 7,277 kB

  Should we replace fonts-symbola with fonts-noto-color-emoji? Or should
  we drop it entirely?

  The only other Color Emoji font I expect to be available in Ubuntu
  soon is EmojiTwo. EmojiTwo lags behind in supporting the latest emoji
  standards.

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