On Sat, 12 May 2018 12:39:50 -0700 Sean Whitton <spwhit...@spwhitton.name> 
wrote:
> Package: fonts-font-awesome
> Version: 5.0.10-1
> Severity: grave
> Control: affects -1 cider
> 
> Dear maintainer,
> 
> The latest upload introduces some new broken symlinks:
> 
>   fonts-font-awesome: broken-symlink 
> /usr/share/fonts-font-awesome/fonts/FontAwesome.otf -> 
> ../../fonts/opentype/font-awesome/FontAwesome.otf
>   fonts-font-awesome: broken-symlink 
> /usr/share/fonts-font-awesome/fonts/fontawesome-webfont.eot -> 
> ../../fonts/eot/font-awesome/fontawesome-webfont.eot
>   fonts-font-awesome: broken-symlink 
> /usr/share/fonts-font-awesome/fonts/fontawesome-webfont.svg -> 
> ../../fonts/svg/font-awesome/fontawesome-webfont.svg
>   fonts-font-awesome: broken-symlink 
> /usr/share/fonts-font-awesome/fonts/fontawesome-webfont.ttf -> 
> ../../fonts/truetype/font-awesome/fontawesome-webfont.ttf
>   fonts-font-awesome: broken-symlink 
> /usr/share/fonts-font-awesome/fonts/fontawesome-webfont.woff -> 
> ../../fonts/woff/font-awesome/fontawesome-webfont.woff
>   fonts-font-awesome: broken-symlink 
> /usr/share/fonts-font-awesome/fonts/fontawesome-webfont.woff2 -> 
> ../../fonts/woff/font-awesome/fontawesome-webfont.woff2
> 
> This causes builds of other packages to fail, e.g. like this:
> 
>     FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 
> '/usr/share/mkdocs/themes/mkdocs_bootstrap/fonts/fontawesome-webfont.woff'
> 
> I think this will affect any package that build-depends on
> mkdocs-bootstrap, of which there are many, hence the severity.

not only that. there are 60+ packages that directly build-depend on
fonts-font-awesome, and these changes probably just broke most of them.

> If the intention was to remove all these links, which NEWS.Debian
> suggests it might have been, then the broken symlinks should still be
> removed, though the bug severity should be lowered.

I understand that upstream has strongly shaken things up with this new
release. However, is there any possibility of providing some backwards
compatibility?

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