On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 11:43:17AM +0200, Ionut Biru wrote:

On 11/22/2011 11:23 AM, Lukas Fleischer wrote:

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Forwarding this to arch-general to get some developers' attention on this (I failed at entering the mail address the first time).

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Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2011 10:17:47 +0100 From: Lukas Fleischer To: arch-general@archlinux, aur-general@archlinux.org Subject: [aur-general] Dropping tango-icon-theme{,-extras} User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15)

Hi!

All sources hosted at tango.freedesktop.org became inaccessible [1] a couple of days ago, probably due to some software upgrade on freedesktop.org.

I contacted upstream yesterday and was told that tango-icon-theme, tango-icon-theme-extras and icon-naming-utils are dead and that we shouldn't rely on upstream sources being available (they even mentioned they probably won't care about the 404). It has been suggested to use gnome-icon-theme and gnome-icon-theme-extras instead.

Given that xfce4-settings seems to be the only package depending on tango-icon-theme, I'd suggest to:

* Remove the "tango-icon-theme" dependency from xfce4-settings (this shouldn't break anything, does it?)

is broken from the time we remove the icon theme. Xfce is going to miss all those icons until somebody installs a new icon theme. We have to replace with something.

Well, xfce4-settings already depends on gnome-icon-theme and uninstalling tango-icon-theme (`pacman -Rdd tango-icon-theme`) didn't break xfce4-settings for me. Not sure if it uses a few icons specific to tango-icon-theme, though. I doubt so. Debian lists tango-icon-theme as a recommendation for xfce4-settings also, so it probably only is a matter of having one or another icon theme.

did somebody talked with xfce about this or at least with xfce maintainers?

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* Move both tango-icon-theme and tango-icon-theme-extras to [unsupported].

* Think about what to do with icon-naming-utils. We seem to need those for gnome-icon-theme and gnome-icon-theme-symbolic, so putting the source tarball on our source mirror might be the best thing to do (unless there's a proper alternative, of course).

gentoo distfiles are useful for something. I'll take care of icon-naming-utils.

Thanks!

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Objections and other suggestions welcome.

Cheers, Lukas

[1] http://tango.freedesktop.org/Tango_Icon_Library#Download

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-- Ionuț

P.S.: The related bug report I created yesterday [1] has just been reopened by Ionut. Thanks for that. [1] https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/27208