On Sun, 13 May 2018 14:14:05 -0300 Antonio Terceiro <terceiro@debian.org> wrote: > not only that. there are 60+ packages that directly build-depend on > fonts-font-awesome, and these changes probably just broke most of them. Not that it matters much but I think you meant "directly *depend*"? paul@testavoira ~ $ reverse-depends -l fonts-font-awesome | wc -l 52 paul@testavoira ~ $ reverse-depends -l -b fonts-font-awesome | wc -l 11 > > 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? Indeed. Or at least a heads up to the depending packages with an explanation of what to do (font X is now called font Y). But without a backwards compatibility layer, doing backports for packages that depend on fonts-font-awesome is going to be more work, as patches for unstable/buster are needed but they need to be undone for backports. Paul
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