Bug#833319: adwaita-icon-theme: Please package debian-swirl icon

Jeremy Bicha jbicha at ubuntu.com
Tue Aug 2 23:50:30 UTC 2016


Package: adwaita-icon-theme
Version: 3.20-3

I believe the default GNOME install in Debian stretch installs
adwaita-icon-theme but not gnome-icon-theme. That's ok, except there's
one file missing: debian-swirl.svg (gnome-foot is also missing but it
doesn't seem very important).

If debian-swirl is available, it's used on the GDM login screen. If
it's not then there's no Debian branding on the login screen itself so
that's a regression.

https://anonscm.debian.org/viewvc/pkg-gnome/desktop/unstable/gdm3/debian/greeter.dconf-defaults?view=markup

debian-swirl appears to have been rejected when adwaita-icon-theme was
first packaged (as a rename of gnome-icon-theme) but I think this
should be reconsidered now.

adwaita-icon-theme (3.13.5-1) experimental; urgency=medium

 ...
  * debian/README.Debian, debian/debian-swirl.svg, debian/gnome-foot.svg,
    debian/postinst, debian/prerm, debian/triggers:
    Drop files related to gnome-foot and debian-swirl icons to avoid these
    files conflicting with gnome-icon-theme.
    (They are mainly useful for gnome-panel and I doubt gnome-panel will
    switch to this new package anytime soon.)
  * debian/rules: remove gnome-foot and debian-swirl related manual
                  handling of the icon cache (drop --no-act).


Perhaps, we should just drop gnome-icon-theme and
gnome-icon-theme-symbolic all together and have them provided by
adwaita-icon-theme. Just try browsing to
https://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-icon-theme/

Thanks,
Jeremy Bicha



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