Hello Aleksei, On Mon, Aug 2, 2021 at 4:23 PM Aleksei Bavshin <alebast...@gmail.com> wrote: > 4 and 5 (and 6) are not backward compatible. Glyphs are missing, > replaced, changed codepoints, etc... Not all things could be ported and > I don't believe we'll ever get rid of 4.
It's good to have confirmation of the lack of compatibility between versions. But ... darn! > Good thing is that _some_ of the packages with `Requires: > fontawesome-fonts` already require v5 and work with v4 only partially. > > > Not so good thing is that someone need to go through about 30 packages > and update dependencies to `font(fontawesome)` and > `font(fontawesome5free)`. I started looking at the packages last month, > but got distracted with work and never finished. Can return to that in a > couple of weeks. Am I stepping on your toes with this? That is, had you already started working on a v5 package? I don't want to get in your way if so. On the other hand, if you haven't, would you like to comaintain the one I'm working on? > One potentially confusing thing is that FA5 consists of two fonts: Font > Awesome 5 Free and Font Awesome 5 Brands. fa-free-fonts could be > interpreted as containing only the former one. > Another is the whole parallel-installable thing and a need to guess > which package is 4 or 5 (and 6 in a not-so-distant future). > > I'd suggest fontawesome5-fonts, or at least something with explicit > version in the package name. Okay, that makes sense. I guess that means that I didn't handle the subpackages correctly, then. I'll give this some thought. Thanks for the input! -- Jerry James http://www.jamezone.org/ _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
