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Bug#899124: fonts-font-awesome: completely breaks web applications, with no notice



Package: fonts-font-awesome
Version: 5.0.10-1
Severity: grave

Font-Awesome version completely changed everything, and any web
applications that use it are now broken unless they go through some
manual intervention.

https://fontawesome.com/how-to-use/upgrading-from-4

As a maintainer of multiple packages that use Font-Awesome, it would
have been nice to receive a heads up and be given some time to adapt.
But instead, now everything is broken and every single web appliction
package that uses Font-Awesome needs to be changed to cope with the
changes.

I'm not sure how to move forward now. IMO either

1) revert the changes in fonts-font-awesome, and package the new release
under a new name (e.g.  fonts-font-awesome-5)

or

2) revert the changes in fonts-font-awesome in unstable, upload the
new release to experimental, and give people a few months to adapt.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: buster/sid
  APT prefers unstable-debug
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'testing-debug'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental-debug'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 4.16.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=pt_BR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=pt_BR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=pt_BR:pt:en (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

-- no debconf information

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