On Tue, 5 Jun 2018 13:31:48 +0100 Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name> wrote: > Hello Vasudev, > > On Sat, Jun 02, 2018 at 05:16:05PM +0530, Vasudev Kamath wrote: > > > > I read through and prepared a version to experimental which symlinks > > fa-solid-900.ttf as fontawesome-webfont.ttf. I've uploaded it to > > experimental, can you please check if this helps?. > > > > @Others Please let me know if this new version in experimental with > > suggestion from Thomas improves situation in your cases. > > This does not help the mkdocs-bootstrap case. That appears to need the > .woff2 font. > > -- > Sean Whitton Hi, This and openstack-dashboard install failure require more symlinks and files from v4. Isn't reverting the package to v4 while creating a new one for the version 5 (say fonts-font-awesome-5) better to handle all these v4/5 breaks ? I'm not sure it is a good solution trying to patch fonts-font-awesome v5 to be compatible with v4 while upstream might continue to even more break things with v4 later. Subsequent maintenance on the v4 package should not require much work as upstream says they don't plan any further versions on the v4 branch [1]: `Now that Font Awesome 5 has been released we are marking version 4 as end-of-life. We don't plan on releasing any further versions of the 4.x or 3.x.` So this v4 package would be dropped once other packages move to fonts-font-awesome-5 with proper upgrade path (ie. without hacks to fake v4 with v5). Especially packages that use sphinx RTD theme where upstream still use v4 and it seems many packages actually have a theme.css based on that theme. I myself tried to patch theme.css to use fonts-font-awesome 5 shim but its a ugly big approximate patch that happen to mostly work :( [2] What do you think about this ? [1] https://github.com/FortAwesome/Font-Awesome#where-did-font-awesome-4-or-3-go [2] https://github.com/amurzeau/streamlink-debian/blob/master/debian/patches/0006-Use-font-awesome-5-shim.patch -- Alexis Murzeau PGP: B7E6 0EBB 9293 7B06 BDBC 2787 E7BD 1904 F480 937F
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