[aur-general] Dropping tango-icon-theme{,-extras}

Eric Bélanger snowmaniscool at gmail.com
Thu Nov 24 12:19:34 EST 2011


On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 12:04 PM, Lukas Fleischer
<archlinux at cryptocrack.de> wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 06:20:42PM +0200, Evangelos Foutras wrote:
>> On 24/11/11 10:05, Andrea Scarpino wrote:
>> > On 22 November 2011 10:17, Lukas Fleischer <archlinux at cryptocrack.de> wrote:
>> >> Hi!
>> >>
>> >> All sources hosted at tango.freedesktop.org became inaccessible [1] a
>> >> couple of days ago, probably due to some software upgrade on
>> >> freedesktop.org.
>> >>
>> >> I contacted upstream yesterday and was told that tango-icon-theme,
>> >> tango-icon-theme-extras and icon-naming-utils are dead and that we
>> >> shouldn't rely on upstream sources being available (they even mentioned
>> >> they probably won't care about the 404). It has been suggested to use
>> >> gnome-icon-theme and gnome-icon-theme-extras instead.
>> >>
>> >> Given that xfce4-settings seems to be the only package depending on
>> >> tango-icon-theme, I'd suggest to:
>> >>
>> >> * Remove the "tango-icon-theme" dependency from xfce4-settings (this
>> >>  shouldn't break anything, does it?)
>> > +1
>> > Maybe you should put gnome-icon-theme{,extras} as optdepends.
>>
>> gnome-icon-theme is listed as a dependency and is the new default.
>> xfce4-settings no longer depends on tango-icon-theme.
>>
>> >> * Move both tango-icon-theme and tango-icon-theme-extras to
>> >>  [unsupported].
>> > +1
>> >
>
> I already moved tango-icon-theme-extras [1]. Moving tango-icon-theme is
> the only task left.
>
> [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=54251
>

Done.


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