Bug#363579: No, gnome-icon-theme isn't needed
James Blanford
Xorguser at cox.net
Mon Apr 24 05:02:30 UTC 2006
On 20 Apr, Josselin Mouette wrote:
>
> libgnomeprintui relies on gnome-icon-theme being present for the icons
> it uses. The configure.in explicitly checks the presence of this
> package, that's why I think it is needed.
It is probably needed as a build-depends, so that it can take advantage
of the icons if they are present. Nevertheless, it seems to work quite
fine without the icons when they are not present. I notice that when I
select a printer, the descriptions present a default icon. This is a
very minor loss and of no concern to me.
As a practical consideration, anyone who is running gnome will have the
icons as they are a dependency of gnome-core. People who do not have
gnome installed are probably not interested in its icon support.
>
> Putting it as a Recommends: instead sounds reasonable as we haven't
> received any reports of a failure without gnome-icon-theme installed.
The criterion is not whether anyone reports a bug, it is what Debian
policy has to say. Accordingly, if the package retains a significant
portion of it's functionality without another package, then it does not
depend upon that package. libgnomeprintui2.2-common does everything I
expect it to do without gnome-icon-theme. The dependency relationship
between libgnomeprintui2.2-common and gnome-icon-theme barely meets the
standard of a "Suggests" let alone a "Recommends" or "Depends".
But a suggestion or a recommendation makes no difference to me, so long
as I can do without it, if I don't want it.
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