Hello, I failed to find any documentation on how to properly depend on icon themes. After reading the fd.o icon theme specification[1], it looks like the specification doesn't cover what "base" icons must be present in a theme. That could mean that packages that use those specific icons need to depend on specific icon themes or provide their own icons, because there's no guarantee that any installed icon theme might come with the icons the package requires.
Taking a look at some random examples in the repository, I see that network-manager-gnome depends specifically on gnome-icon-theme. That may be because only gnome-icon-themes are guaranteed to provide the necessary icons. On the other hand, the package arista depends on either gnome-icon-theme or 8 other specific icon themes. I can look at packages.d.o and check what packages provide the icons I need for the package I'm considering packaging, but this seems rather fragile. Is there anything else that can be done? If some basic icons could be guaranteed to exist, couldn't we abstract them into a virtual package? Pointers to references or any previous discussions are also greatly appreciated. [1]: http://standards.freedesktop.org/icon-theme-spec/icon-theme-spec-latest.html Thanks in advance, -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/canvyna-uz56a0sa02kbbaiddf9p0mpvkas5n0j1q90n2nmu...@mail.gmail.com
