[arch-general] Fwd: [aur-general] Dropping tango-icon-theme{, -extras}

[Lukas Fleischer]

On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 11:43:17AM +0200, Ionut Biru wrote:
> On 11/22/2011 11:23 AM, Lukas Fleischer wrote:
> > Forwarding this to arch-general to get some developers' attention on
> > this (I failed at entering the mail address the first time).
> > 
> > ----- Forwarded message from Lukas Fleischer <archlinux at cryptocrack.de> -----
> > 
> > Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2011 10:17:47 +0100
> > From: Lukas Fleischer <archlinux at cryptocrack.de>
> > To: arch-general at archlinux, aur-general at 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?
> 
> > * 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!

> 
> 
> > Objections and other suggestions welcome.
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > Lukas
> > 
> > [1] http://tango.freedesktop.org/Tango_Icon_Library#Download
> > 
> > ----- End forwarded message -----
> 
> 
> -- 
> 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