Build failure: emojione

[l0b0]

Steps To Reproduce

Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. nix-build -A emojione on current master, 9665639

Build log

https://gist.github.com/l0b0/bf338fbde6ed5cb53ebed4dd9f1260d1

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Metadata

• system: "x86_64-linux"
• host os: Linux 6.9.9, NixOS, 24.11 (Vicuna), 24.11pre652179.7e7c39ea35c5
• multi-user?: yes
• sandbox: yes
• version: nix-env (Nix) 2.18.5
• channels(root): "nixos, nixos-hardware"
• nixpkgs: /nix/var/nix/profiles/per-user/root/channels/nixos

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[ghpzin]

Error in logs from scfbuild:

scfbuild -c scfbuild.yml -o build/EmojiOneColor-SVGinOT.ttf --font-version="1.4"
scfbuild -c scfbuild-osx.yml -o build/EmojiOneColor-SVGinOT-OSX.ttf --font-version="1.4"
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/nix/store/ypqis4mag1g2015j9zm4rfq0xa12q48m-scfbuild-2.0.0/bin/.scfbuild-wrapped", line 15, in <module>
    from scfbuild.main import main
  File "/nix/store/ypqis4mag1g2015j9zm4rfq0xa12q48m-scfbuild-2.0.0/lib/python3.12/site-packages/scfbuild/main.py", line 18, in <module>
    from .builder import Builder
  File "/nix/store/ypqis4mag1g2015j9zm4rfq0xa12q48m-scfbuild-2.0.0/lib/python3.12/site-packages/scfbuild/builder.py", line 14, in <module>
    from distutils.version import LooseVersion
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'distutils'
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/nix/store/ypqis4mag1g2015j9zm4rfq0xa12q48m-scfbuild-2.0.0/bin/.scfbuild-wrapped", line 15, in <module>
    from scfbuild.main import main
  File "/nix/store/ypqis4mag1g2015j9zm4rfq0xa12q48m-scfbuild-2.0.0/lib/python3.12/site-packages/scfbuild/main.py", line 18, in <module>
    from .builder import Builder
  File "/nix/store/ypqis4mag1g2015j9zm4rfq0xa12q48m-scfbuild-2.0.0/lib/python3.12/site-packages/scfbuild/builder.py", line 14, in <module>
    from distutils.version import LooseVersion
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'distutils'
make: *** [Makefile:102: build/EmojiOneColor-SVGinOT.ttf] Error 1
make: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
make: *** [Makefile:105: build/EmojiOneColor-SVGinOT-OSX.ttf] Error 1

Upstream maintenance status for this is quite questionable, current repo for emojione is archived since 2018:
https://github.com/13rac1/emojione-color-font

This repository has been archived by the owner on Nov 10, 2018. It is now read-only.
End of Life. Switch to https://github.com/eosrei/twemoji-color-font

It is a 20 min build on hydra for resulting fonts that are unlikely to ever change.

Fix for scfbuild is pretty easy - just patching distutils part and add looseversion to dependencies (or even remove that check altogether because fonttools version in nixpkgs has been over 2.5 for years):

diff --git a/scfbuild/builder.py b/scfbuild/builder.py
index 6f023b8..7ba811e 100644
--- a/scfbuild/builder.py
+++ b/scfbuild/builder.py
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ import os
 import sys
 import tempfile
 import time
-from distutils.version import LooseVersion
+from looseversion import LooseVersion
 import xml.etree.ElementTree as ET

 import fontTools

But considering it is archived it may be better to either drop both (as nothing else seem to depend on scfbuild) or switch to release tarball similar to twemoji-color-font:
#97871

[l0b0]

I wouldn't remind emojione being removed if there's a useful alternative. I don't know of a good way to get complete coverage over emojis, and so far I've installed emojione, nerdfonts, noto-fonts, stix-two, and twemoji-color-font, none of which seem to cover any of the other emoji code points completely.

[LuNeder]

Potentially related: #325909 and #253751

Potential fix: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/325909/files or #325773