[Pkg-mozext-maintainers] Bug#827517: Bug#827517: xul-ext-ublock-origin: Missing icons in uBlock's popup UI

[Sean Whitton]

Hello,

On Tue, Jun 21, 2016 at 12:08:55AM +0200, Hartmut Buhrmester wrote:
> I also noticed, that the icons from the extension uBlock Origin are missing,
> if the Debian version of the extension is installed, and I like to offer
> another explanation:
> 
> When searching for instances of the Font Awesome, I found a symbolic link in
> the extension uBlock itself:
> 
> /usr/share/xul-ext/ublock-origin/css/fonts/fontawesome-webfont.ttf
> 
> The symbolic link uses a double redirection to finally point to the real
> font file at:
> 
> /usr/share/fonts/truetype/font-awesome/fontawesome-webfont.ttf
> 
> Now it seems, that the extension simply doesn't resolve that symbolic link.
> I deleted the symbolic link and replaced it with the original font file, and
> then everything worked fine!

Thanks for performing that investigation.  I don't find any mention of
symlinks in the upstream bug report,[1] but I guess it's a side-effect
of the fix.

[1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1245811

-- 
Sean Whitton
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