Hi Antonio, Antonio Terceiro <terce...@debian.org> writes:
> Package: fonts-font-awesome > Version: 5.0.10-1 > Severity: grave > > Font-Awesome version completely changed everything, and any web > applications that use it are now broken unless they go through some > manual intervention. > > https://fontawesome.com/how-to-use/upgrading-from-4 > > As a maintainer of multiple packages that use Font-Awesome, it would > have been nice to receive a heads up and be given some time to adapt. > But instead, now everything is broken and every single web appliction > package that uses Font-Awesome needs to be changed to cope with the > changes. Apologies for the problems created by this upload. I was not aware of technical efforts involved due to this upgrade as I myself do not use this font and maintainer only because of some historical reasons. > > I'm not sure how to move forward now. IMO either > > 1) revert the changes in fonts-font-awesome, and package the new release > under a new name (e.g. fonts-font-awesome-5) Though it might temporarily be a solution I think in long run it will be burden as font-awesome till 4 will be not maintained. > > or > > 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. Let me know if this works for you. Cheers, Vasudev --
