Bug#708684: gnome-icon-theme should be a virtual package provided by others

[Luis Alejandro Martínez Faneyth]

Package: gnome-icon-theme
Version: 3.7.91-1
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

gnome-icon-theme is the default icon theme for Gnome on Debian: this is 
logical as is also the default icon theme shipped with gnome. But i've 
found out that you cannot remove this package and replace it with 
another, unless you make a mutually excluding package that Provides, 
Conflicts, Replaces it. This is particularly hostile to Debian Derivatives.

As every single icon-dependent gnome application depends on 
gnome-icon-theme, it should be a virtual package provided by all 
gnome-icon-theme(s) in the repository, so that users can replace it 
freely whenever they want, and Derivatives can get rid of it (cleanly) 
if they use another icon theme.

Of course, the name of the real binary package contenting the icons 
should change and gnome-core should change the dependency to something 
like " gnome-icon-(new-name) | gnome-icon-theme".

I hope you can consider and think about this. I'll be around if you need 
any help.


Greetings,

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Luis Alejandro Martínez Faneyth
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-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
   APT prefers unstable
   APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=es_VE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=es_VE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages gnome-icon-theme depends on:
ii  hicolor-icon-theme  0.12-1
ii  libgtk-3-bin        3.8.0-1
ii  librsvg2-common     2.36.4-1

gnome-icon-theme recommends no packages.

gnome-icon-theme suggests no packages.

-- no debconf information