Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Alessandro Astone <alessandro.ast...@canonical.com>
X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org,
debian-gtk-gn...@lists.debian.org
* Package name : adwaita-icon-theme-legacy
Version : 46.2
Upstream Contact: Jakub Steiner <jim...@gmail.com>
* URL : https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/adwaita-icon-theme-legacy
* License : LGPL-3.0-only or CC-BY-SA-3.0
Programming Lang: N/A
Description : A fullcolor icon theme providing fallback for legacy apps.
GNOME does not use adwaita-icon-theme as an FDO-compliant icon theme
but third party applications might. By making adwaita-icon-theme
inherit from adwaita-icon-theme-legacy, it becomes once again an
FDO-compliant icon theme that third party applications can use.
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adwaita-icon-theme-legacy is a new upstream GNOME component, and it is a
new mandatory dependency of adwaita-icon-theme.
The purpose of the package is to provide /legacy/ icons, now dropped
from adwaita-icon-theme, for applications that use the FDO
icon-theme-spec
<https://specifications.freedesktop.org/icon-theme-spec/icon-theme-spec-latest.html>
GNOME does not intend for adwaita-icon-theme to provide icons for all
the names in the spec, but the theme might be the system’s default icon
theme, and thus used by third-party (typically non-GNOME) applications.
Thus, adwaita-icon-theme was set to inherit from
adwaita-icon-theme-legacy to remain compliant with the spec.
Read more about it:
*
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/adwaita-icon-theme/-/issues/288
*
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/adwaita-icon-theme/-/commit/9cb8144b387251eef9c0a221b2febe18802e2435
*
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xdg/default-icon-theme/-/issues/21
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This package will be maintained by the Debian GNOME team. Packaging will
be at
https://salsa.debian.org/gnome-team/adwaita-icon-theme-legacy
