#1150391 Please replace fonts-materialdesignicons-webfont (build)-depends by fonts-materialdesignicons-legacy

#1150391#5
Date:
2026-10-09 08:08:42 UTC
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Hi,

fonts-materialdesignicons-webfont is going to be removed from the archive:
the font binary embeds the brand icons (trademark-restricted, not DFSG
free) and the package isn't built from source (see #1140680). Its only two
consumers are Horizon (via python-xstatic-mdi) and searx-admin.

searx-admin serves its icons from the font package:

  /usr/share/fonts-materialdesignicons-webfont/css/materialdesignicons.min.css
  /usr/share/fonts-materialdesignicons-webfont/scss/materialdesignicons.scss

fonts-materialdesignicons-legacy provides the same font, built from the
MaterialDesign-SVG source with the brand icons excluded. A pending update
(-4) will additionally keep the above exact paths working, through compat
symlinks (css, scss and a flat fonts/) backed by the v6.9.96 build. I
verified that all eight MDI icons searx-admin uses (alert-outline,
file-restore, logout, pen, play, reload, replay, stop) exist in v6.9.96.

Please change in the next upload (after fonts-materialdesignicons-legacy
-4 reaches unstable, which adds the compat paths):