On Sat, May 26, 2018 at 02:29:56AM +0200, Pierre-Elliott Bécue wrote: > Le mardi 22 mai 2018 à 21:16:14+0530, Vasudev Kamath a écrit : > > Hi Antonio, > > > > Antonio Terceiro <terceiro@debian.org> writes: > > > > > Control: forwarded -1 https://salsa.debian.org/fonts-team/fonts-font-awesome/merge_requests/1 > > > > > > On Sun, May 20, 2018 at 06:15:08PM -0300, Antonio Terceiro wrote: > > >> Control: reopen -1 > > >> > > >> On Sun, May 20, 2018 at 10:32:38PM +0530, Vasudev Kamath wrote: > > >> > Antonio Terceiro <terceiro@debian.org> writes: > > >> > > 2) revert the changes in fonts-font-awesome in unstable, upload the > > >> > > new release to experimental, and give people a few months to adapt. > > >> > > > >> > I'm okay with this solution. I've currently fixed the broken links and > > >> > uploaded the fixes. If you would like more time to adapt to the version > > >> > 5 of font, I can request its removal from unstable and re-upload old > > >> > version to unstable and then upload this new version to experimental. > > >> > > >> There is no such thing as requesting removal. you need to upload it with > > >> a higher version number, but with the old contents. Something like > > >> 5.0.10+really4.7.0-1. > > >> > > >> Or maybe not. I will try if I can work things out with the new version, > > >> so expect a few patches. > > >> > > >> For now I'm reopening this bug (which was not really fixed by your -3 > > >> upload), and let's see what I can get. > > > > > > So here it is: > > > https://salsa.debian.org/fonts-team/fonts-font-awesome/merge_requests/1 > > > > > > This merge request fixes usage of v5, and add a backwards compatibility > > > layer for the v4 when used with CSS (which was the only option in v4 > > > AFAICT). It also adds autopkgtest to automatically test that the needed > > > files are in the right places both for v5 and for v4. > > > > Thanks for this!. I've merged this and pushed new version to unstable. > > > > > > > > LESS and SCSS are not handled. > > > > Let's see if any one is really using them, if so we will get bug report. > > > > Thanks and Warm Regards, > > 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? I'm afraid so. The font files themselves changed upstream, and there is not a single font file that is equivalente to the old ones anymore.
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