Bug#661471: Bug #661471

Theppitak Karoonboonyanan thep at debian.org
Tue Jul 3 11:34:56 UTC 2012


On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 8:39 PM, Theppitak Karoonboonyanan
<thep at debian.org> wrote:
> So, let's add Breaks: gnome-accessibility-themes (<< 3.0)?
>
> Packages affected by this Breaks and the absence of
> (gnome-accessibility-themes >= 3.0) would be:
>
> - arista (Depends)
>  -> Not a big deal, as g-a-t is just an alternative dependency,
>     and can by satisfied by, say, gnome-icon-theme.
> - education-desktop-gnome (Recommends)
>
> I don't know how Debian GNOME team thinks about packaging
> g-a-t 3.0.0, the latest upstream version, as upstream has stopped
> shipping it since 3.2, and Debian now ships GNOME 3.4.

No, it's impossible to package g-a-t 3.0.0 now, as it requires the
outdated gtk-engines-3.pc.

> If it's to be dropped, let's file bugs against the two packages
> above to remove the dependencies.

This may not be necessary, either. Those two packages may
assume old environment and may be installed without
gnome-themes-standard (e.g. on LXDE).

So, let's just add the Breaks.

Regards,
-- 
Theppitak Karoonboonyanan
http://linux.thai.net/~thep/





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