Hi, Le 23/06/2018 à 08:11, Vasudev Kamath a écrit : > Hi Alexis, Thomas, > > First of all I apologise for not replying in time. I'm bit occupied by > family work so not getting enough time to deal with package.
That's fine no worries :) I actually asked you directly because I don't want changes to happen on your package without your consent or even be unaware of it, that would be bad. > > Alexis Murzeau <amub...@gmail.com> writes: > >>> >>> I also would like to highlight that what you're describing here is the >>> workflow of a transition, which is what Debian has been doing for >>> *years*. Not only this is natural in Debian, but it is also very much >>> recommended when breakage occurs. >>> >>> I'm by the way a bit frustrated that this process is taking so long. >>> This has a huge impact in the maintenance of a big dozen of my packages, >>> since Horizon can't be installed. Reverting is really not a lot of work. >>> Can we get this done soon, as it seems to be the consensus? If the >>> current font-awesome maintainer is busy, maybe someone else (me?) can do >>> the work? > > Yes I agree that I should have followed usual transition process but I > did not imagine a font package breaking things in this manner. Of course > its not an excuse but I should have been careful, but what is done is > done now. > >> >> @Vasudev, what do you think about this ? >> >> (As far as I'm concerned, I'm ok with this and Thomas said it shouldn't >> be a lot of work to do.) > > I've created basic package at ¹. If you or Thomas can adjust the package > as needed and upload it to archive it would be great. Also please > consider adding yourself as uploader as I might not have energy to > maintain additional package. > > ¹ https://salsa.debian.org/fonts-team/fonts-font-awesomev4 Thanks. I think I can help maintaining these packages (v4 and v5) as streamlink uses them but I'm not a DM (nor a DD). I think the best is to keep the old source and binary package name fonts-font-awesome for the old version (v4) and use a new one fonts-font-awesome-5 for the new version. So following best practice [0] for what would be a "backward incompatible ABI change which prevents old programs from working with the new library" for a library. So changing the font path to include "-5" and the package name accordingly. So this would mean: - revert the fonts-font-awesome package in unstable to 4.7.0~dfsg-3 - either: - Clone fonts-font-awesome to fonts-font-awesomev4 then reverting all branches and tags to v4.7.0~dfsg-3 in fonts-font-awesomev4 - Or clone fonts-font-awesome to another repository fonts-font-awesome-5 (to match the source package name) and reset branches and tags in the fonts-font-awesome repository to v4.7.0~dfsg-3. My personal thought on repository naming is that its better to have fonts-font-awesome (4.7.0~dfsg-3) and fonts-font-awesome-5 (5.0.10-4) to match source package names. The debian/watch file for fonts-font-awesome (v4) then need to change to ".*/v(4\.\d.*)"[...] to stick with v4. I've made change in forks at [1] and [2]. Also, I think some changes can be reverted to remove support of v4 in v5 package. Possibly, reopen bugs that were closed since fonts-font-awesome v5 and reassign newer ones applying to v5 to the new package fonts-font-awesome-5. As a side node, I see that font awesome 5 upstream git is in fact the build result, not the sources (see [4]). But its still free, using CC BY 4.0 for icons, SIL OFL 1.1 for fonts and MIT for anything else (see [3]). The DFSG requires to have the source code. Does this mean fonts-font-awesome-5 cannot be handled the same way as before, ie outside of main ? Not sure as this is not strictly compiled-only and there are scss, less and non minified js files. [0] https://wiki.debian.org/TransitionBestPractices [1] https://salsa.debian.org/amurzeau-guest/fonts-font-awesome-4 [2] https://salsa.debian.org/amurzeau-guest/fonts-font-awesome-5 [3] https://fontawesome.com/license [4] https://github.com/FortAwesome/Font-Awesome/issues/12199#issuecomment-363168281 -- Alexis Murzeau PGP: B7E6 0EBB 9293 7B06 BDBC 2787 E7BD 1904 F480 937F
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