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

[Vasudev Kamath <vasudev@copyninja.info>]

Pierre-Elliott Bécue <becue@crans.org> writes:

>
> Hi,
>
> I'm maintaining HyperKitty, and it relies on fontawesome-webfont.ttf and
> FontAwesome.otf from the v4 version. To avoid shipping the files with the
> package, I linked them from the debian's one in d/rules. (see [1])
>
> Do we agree that there is no backward compability for such a case?

Upstream completely dropped ttf files. Now there are 3 variants of
opentype fonts, to provide backward compatibility some one should point
out which version suits best and we can create compatibility link. So as
to not break the package for now. But at some point of time reverse
dependencies need to adjust to new version of font.

Cheers,