Alexis, Thanks for your contribution to this bug report.
> [1] Here is an analysis of font-awesome usage across sid packages from > [3]: Packages embedding a copy of font-awesome: > [...] > python-xstatic-font-awesome 4.7.0.0-4: embedded copy of 4.7 Nope, python-xstatic-font-awesome has the fonts in the source package, but when building the binaries, they are removed and the package points to /usr/share/fonts-font-awesome/fonts/ (through some Python Xstatic mechanisms). And under the current situation, the package is currently completely broken. Threfore, I'm also considering re-embedding the files in, unless we find a solution. I very much agree with you that adding a new fonts-font-awesome-v4 package would fix the situation, at least during the time of the transition. I don't see any issue with doing this, as this really is 2 sets of very different fonts, and also, I don't see how having 2 versions of fonts is a problem (it's unlike shared libraries where there's security issues when duplicating stuff). If we can't do that, then I also believe that adding links to fa-solid-900 as fontawesome-webfont would be helpful. Anyways, I'll try to get upstream to upgrade to v5. Cheers, Thomas Goirand (zigo)