Bug#622283: gnome-icon-theme-extras: not installable in sid

[shirish शिरीष]

At bottom :-

On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 00:44, Ralf Treinen <treinen at free.fr> wrote:
> In fact. gnome-icon-theme-extras is uninstallable in sid since:
>
> gnome-icon-theme-extras (= 3.00.0-1) depends on missing: - gnome-icon-theme (>= 3.0)
>
> -Ralf.

Just a user. See that one cannot install gnome-icon-theme from
experimental without installing gnome-icon-theme-symbolic.

$ sudo aptitude install gnome-icon-theme=3.0.0-2
[sudo] password for shirish:
The following packages will be upgraded:
  gnome-icon-theme
1 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 8,976 kB of archives. After unpacking 32.6 MB will be used.
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
  gnome-icon-theme-extras: Depends: gnome-icon-theme (< 2.31) but
3.0.0-2 is to be installed.
  gnome-icon-theme-symbolic: Depends: gnome-icon-theme (< 2.31) but
3.0.0-2 is to be installed.
The following actions will resolve these dependencies:

     Remove the following packages:
1)     gnome-icon-theme-extras
2)     gnome-icon-theme-symbolic



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Abandoning all efforts to resolve these dependencies.
Abort.

Looking at the depends it seems apart from gnome-icon-theme package
there isn't much to keep it from installing, although even the depends
there is a bit confusing.

$ aptitude show gnome-icon-theme-symbolic=3.0.0-1
Package: gnome-icon-theme-symbolic
State: not installed
Automatically installed: no
Version: 3.0.0-1
Priority: optional
Section: gnome
Maintainer: Debian GNOME Maintainers
<pkg-gnome-maintainers at lists.alioth.debian.org>
Uncompressed Size: 1,843 k
Depends: hicolor-icon-theme, gnome-icon-theme (>= 3.0), gnome-icon-theme (<
         3.1), libgtk2.0-bin
Description: GNOME Desktop icon theme (symbolic icons)
 This package contains the default icon theme used by the GNOME desktop. The
 icons are used in the panel menu, and in nautilus and other applications, to
 represent the different applications, files, directories, and devices.

 This package contains symbolic icons for the default GNOME icon theme.

I dunno much but it does seem that just pushing the three versioned
packages from experimental to unstable :-

a. gnome-icon-theme
b. gnome-icon-theme-extras
c. gnome-icon-theme-symbolic

 should do the  trick. As I haven't done it (as do not take packages
from experimental) dunno if it breaks something else. If needed/wanted
can try it out.

On another note, for whatever reason, GNOME 3 updates/transition in
Debian seems to have hit a standstill.

http://www.0d.be/debian/debian-gnome-3.0-status.html

As can be seen the last time anything changed was on 29th May (more
than a week back).

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