Bug#1077864: gnome-core: lower dependency to gnome-themes-extra

[Simon McVittie]

On Sat, 03 Aug 2024 at 11:43:43 -0400, Jeremy Bícha wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 3, 2024 at 11:36 AM Patrice Duroux <patrice.duroux at gmail.com> wrote:
> > gnome-themes-extra is described as 'Adwaita GTK 2 theme - engine'
> > and it would be nice to be able to remove some unused GTK 2 packages
> > without removing gnome-core itself.
> 
> I guess we could have libgtk2.0-0t64 Recommend gnome-themes-extra
> instead. It can't be a Depends there without causing a circular
> dependency.

A circular Recommends will still prevent apt from suggesting them for
auto-removal if you uninstall your last GTK2 app, which would be annoying.

gnome-themes-extra and gtk2-engines-pixbuf used to suppress the dependency
on libgtk2.0-0 (breaking the cycle), but that regressed during the
t64 transition because the name of the package changed. If we fix
that regression, then we could safely give libgtk2.0-0 a Recommends
on gnome-themes-extra.

libgtk2.0-0 Depends: gnome-themes-extra would seem too strong to me anyway
- if people want to turn off Recommends and have reduced functionality
and an ugly anti-theme, then my opinion is they asked for it, they got it.

    smcv