On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 11:07 AM, Ivan Shmakov <oneing...@gmail.com> wrote: > Abstract > > The non-data packages currently having an absolute dependency on > hicolor-icon-theme should consider downgrading it to Recommends: > at the least. The list, and the explanation, are below. > > > Chapter I > imagemagick > > Recently, Depends: hicolor-icon-theme was added to the > imagemagick's control file, which triggered my curiosity: does > it provide something that wasn't needed (or was missed) by the > previous versions of the package, but is strictly necessary to > run the newer ones? > > Indeed, it doesn't. > > To prove it, I've made a trivial control file for > equivs-build(1):
first thanks for this but a bug report to imagemagick will be morehelpful. Secondly I add depends on hicolor-icon-theme in order to use the trigger on it for registering icon-cache. Do you have checked if display on menu show the icons ? Did you check if you install hicolor-icon-theme after icon cache trigger run correctly on the imagemagick icons ? [...] > Well, it doesn't seem suspicious for anything *-icon-* and > *-data to depend on an icon theme, but what about the rest? > > For a start, I've omitted rabbitvcs-core and viridian, and > considered d-feet, flush, openteacher, perlpanel, and synaptic. > Unsurprisingly, all of them were able to install and run, but > while openteacher is seemingly unaffected by the absence of the > data in question, the rest have had obvious issues: almost all > of the icons were absent, resulting in blank space on the GUI, > missing controls, and warnings to stderr (stdout?) Yes lack of icon. it the same on the gnome menu if I remove the For imagemagick this will be solved in a future release with a non X depend on the base version. But it is really too late on freeze. Bastien > > > Conclusion > > Since there're (as it seems) virtually no issues with running > imagemagick without a “real” hicolor-icon-theme installed, my > suggestion would be to downgrade the dependency to Suggests: (or > Recommends:, if there's some point I've missed.) > > As for the other packages considered, my suggestion would be to > downgrade the dependencies to Recommends: (or, for openteacher, > to Suggests:, if it's indeed unaffected.) > > Unless there'd be any objections, I'll consider filing a bug > against imagemagick, and perhaps the other aforementioned > packages as well. > > > Post Scriptum > > Curiously enough, the only “application” package having a > Recommends: dependency on hicolor-icon-theme is cheese. > > -- > FSF associate member #7257 http://sf-day.org/ > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org > Archive: http://lists.debian.org/86ehn551jr....@gray.siamics.net > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/cae2spabgkudj7acjbgks+y3ybita2jt4j2z792oxaaxfzoe...@mail.gmail.com
