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Bug#899124: fa-solid-900.ttf symlinked as fontawesome-webfont.ttf



Hello Alexis,

On Tue, Jun 26 2018, Alexis Murzeau wrote:

> I've updated my personal repo [0] to use the version
> 5.0.10+really4.7.0~dfsg-1.  I've reset the changelog and everything to
> debian/4.7.0~dfsg-3 tag and then cherry-picking relevant commits in
> 5.0.10-x:
>   * Change maintainer email address to debian-fonts@l.d.o.
>   * Drop Friendica Maintainers team from uploaders list.
>   * Mark package compliance with Debian policy 4.1.4.
>   * Use salsa URL in Vcs-* fields.
>
> And then update the package version and watch file.  I've branched out
> from the debian/4.7.0_dfsg-3 tag but that's a non forward master
> branch move. I'm not sure how to handle this here, but v5 related
> change don't seems relevant for the v4 package to me as everything is
> just reverted.

The git history is up to you but resetting the changelog seems like a
really bad idea -- it is confusing to see that there are uploads to the
archive that are not present in the changelog.

I think you should at least retain d/changelog, even if you reset
everything else (personally, I would keep all the git history).

-- 
Sean Whitton

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