Bug#363579: No, gnome-icon-theme isn't needed

[Josselin Mouette]

Le dimanche 23 avril 2006 à 22:02 -0700, James Blanford a écrit :
> > 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.

Nothing in the build process requires the icons. They are used at
runtime.

> > 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.

The policy says there should be a Depends: if the package cannot work
with that dependency. Upstream says that libgnomeprintui doesn't work
without gnome-icon-theme.

Now, please stop this silly discussion. I already said this will be
lowered to a Recommends: in the next upload.
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