Bug#1117091: texmacs: Depends on obsolete gnome-icon-theme

[Simon McVittie]

Package: texmacs-base
Severity: important
Tags: forky sid
Control: block 1103556 by -1
User: pkg-gnome-maintainers at lists.alioth.debian.org
Usertags: oldlibs gnome-icon-theme

texmacs-base Depends on gnome-icon-theme, the icon theme formerly used by 
GNOME. gnome-icon-theme was abandoned upstream years ago (the icon 
theme used in modern GNOME is called Adwaita) and it should probably be 
removed from Debian during the forky cycle.

This dependency seems to have been added in 2009 for #548596 "cannot 
configure package without gnome-icon-theme", but I don't know whether 
it's still necessary.

Can this dependency be removed?

The GNOME upstream recommendation for apps that rely on specific icons 
at runtime is to include the necessary icon with the app. If the icon is 
used to represent the app itself in menus and .desktop files, it should 
normally have the app ID as its filename and be installed into the 
default "hicolor" icon theme directory. If the icon is used internally 
within the app, for example to be part of a button or a menu bar, it can 
be loaded from a private data directory or embedded in the executable 
using the GResource mechanism.

There are also adwaita-icon-theme (the icon theme used by modern GNOME, 
which has been reduced to only the icons required by GNOME itself) and 
adwaita-icon-theme-legacy (which is somewhat larger). Either of those 
would be a better dependency than gnome-icon-theme, if they're 
sufficient.

Thanks,
    smcv