Hello Jerry,
On 8/4/21 3:57 PM, Jerry James wrote:
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?
No, I haven't, so feel free to continue.
Previous attempt to upgrade fontawesome wasn't successful (rhbz#1854348
if you haven't seen that already), so I was just trying to estimate the
magnitude of disaster :)
Fabio (@fale) did the aforementioned upgrade and could be more inclined
to comaintain fa5.
> 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!
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With best regards,
Aleksei Bavshin