Source: fonts-materialdesignicons-legacy Severity: important Tags: patch Hi Julian,
As you know from #1140680, it would be desirable to completely remove the package fonts-materialdesignicons-webfont in favor of your fonts-materialdesignicons-legacy package which is much nicer, built from sources, etc. I'm by the way sorry that it took me so long to draft a plan on how to do it. I've now come to the conclusiong that this is the best route. fonts-materialdesignicons-webfont ships a pre-built font which embeds the brand icons, and it isn't built from source. Its two consumers will be switched to this package instead: - python3-xstatic-mdi (used by Horizon to display its icons), whose debianize patch points BASE_DIR at /usr/share/fonts-materialdesignicons-webfont/; we will point it at /usr/share/fonts-materialdesignicons-webfont/v6.9.96/ instead. - searx-admin (see: #1150391), which serves css/materialdesignicons.min.css and scss/materialdesignicons.scss from the same directory; it will use the versioned paths. For a consumer to mount a single version directory (as xstatic's BASE_DIR does), css, scss *and* the font files must all be reachable inside it. The alternative is to have the xstatic-mdi package to design a forest of symlink, which isn't desirable at all. Instead, a small patch into your package will fix it. The css and scss are already there; what's missing is the fonts. A top-level symlink wouldn't work: the css references the fonts as ../../fonts/... (which is correct from within v6.9.96/css/), and URL resolution follows the path, not the symlink, so it would point at /usr/share/fonts/ instead. The attached patch therefore adds a fonts symlink *inside* each versioned directory, pointing at the existing top-level flat fonts/ directory (which your .links already provides). I verified this end-to-end in a chroot: the package builds fine with the patch, and compiling a Horizon-style scss (setting $mdi-font-path to .../v6.9.96/fonts and importing .../v6.9.96/scss/materialdesigniconsv6.scss) produces correct font URLs which resolve through the symlink chain. For your information, on the consumer side: all eight MDI icons used by searx-admin exist in v6.9.96, and of the 69 icons mapped in Horizon's material theme, only "settings" is missing (it was renamed to "cog" in v5+), which a one-line fix in Horizon's _icons.scss will handle. Note also that the 7.4.47 font currently in experimental is missing both "settings" and "desktop-mac", so the v6 font is actually an improvement there. Could you please review, and upload the attached patch as -4? It unblocks the removal of fonts-materialdesignicons-webfont (#1140680), after which I will switch the consumers (python3-xstatic-mdi, searx-admin and horizon) in that order. Thanks a lot for making this package in the first place, it saved us a lot of work! Thomas Goirand (zigo)
0001-Added-a-fonts-symlink-inside-each-of-the-versioned-d.patch
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