Bug#902981: fork-awesome

[Xavier <yadd@debian.org>]

Le 27/09/2018 à 23:11, Rob Madole a écrit :
> I’m one of the core developers on the Font Awesome project. I can answer
> any specific questions and I’ll try and help where I can.
> 
> Probably the first question to get out of the way is: “Will Font Awesome
> open source their build tool?”
> 
> And the answer is no for the time being.
> 
> What are the other obstacles to getting version 5 added as a package?

Hello,

I think a good start is to answer to these questions:
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=902981#57

Remember that DFSG is a guidelines (not a set of rules), so Debian
community will decide if version 5 is free/acceptable or not. You may
have to convince us that your package is "libre" ;-).

Personally, I stopped font-awesome upgrade to version 4.7 in my projects
(https://lemonldap-ng.org Web-SSO for example).

Another solution is to use "non-free" branch. This is not part of Debian
release but is distributed in parallel. Note also that in this case,
every package which depend on version 5 will be forced out of Debian
release to fall back to "contrib" branch.

Cheers,
Xavier