On Sat, 12 May 2018 12:39:50 -0700 Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name> wrote: > Package: fonts-font-awesome > Version: 5.0.10-1 > Severity: grave > Control: affects -1 cider > > Dear maintainer, > > The latest upload introduces some new broken symlinks: > > fonts-font-awesome: broken-symlink /usr/share/fonts-font-awesome/fonts/FontAwesome.otf -> ../../fonts/opentype/font-awesome/FontAwesome.otf > fonts-font-awesome: broken-symlink /usr/share/fonts-font-awesome/fonts/fontawesome-webfont.eot -> ../../fonts/eot/font-awesome/fontawesome-webfont.eot > fonts-font-awesome: broken-symlink /usr/share/fonts-font-awesome/fonts/fontawesome-webfont.svg -> ../../fonts/svg/font-awesome/fontawesome-webfont.svg > fonts-font-awesome: broken-symlink /usr/share/fonts-font-awesome/fonts/fontawesome-webfont.ttf -> ../../fonts/truetype/font-awesome/fontawesome-webfont.ttf > fonts-font-awesome: broken-symlink /usr/share/fonts-font-awesome/fonts/fontawesome-webfont.woff -> ../../fonts/woff/font-awesome/fontawesome-webfont.woff > fonts-font-awesome: broken-symlink /usr/share/fonts-font-awesome/fonts/fontawesome-webfont.woff2 -> ../../fonts/woff/font-awesome/fontawesome-webfont.woff2 > > This causes builds of other packages to fail, e.g. like this: > > FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/usr/share/mkdocs/themes/mkdocs_bootstrap/fonts/fontawesome-webfont.woff' > > I think this will affect any package that build-depends on > mkdocs-bootstrap, of which there are many, hence the severity. not only that. there are 60+ packages that directly build-depend on fonts-font-awesome, and these changes probably just broke most of them. > If the intention was to remove all these links, which NEWS.Debian > suggests it might have been, then the broken symlinks should still be > removed, though the bug severity should be lowered. I understand that upstream has strongly shaken things up with this new release. However, is there any possibility of providing some backwards compatibility?
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