On 11/22/2011 11:23 AM, Lukas Fleischer wrote: > Forwarding this to arch-general to get some developers' attention on > this (I failed at entering the mail address the first time). > > ----- Forwarded message from Lukas Fleischer <archlinux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> ----- > > Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2011 10:17:47 +0100 > From: Lukas Fleischer <archlinux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > To: arch-general@archlinux, aur-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: [aur-general] Dropping tango-icon-theme{,-extras} > User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) > > 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?) > is broken from the time we remove the icon theme. Xfce is going to miss all those icons until somebody installs a new icon theme. We have to replace with something. did somebody talked with xfce about this or at least with xfce maintainers? > * Move both tango-icon-theme and tango-icon-theme-extras to > [unsupported]. > > * Think about what to do with icon-naming-utils. We seem to need those > for gnome-icon-theme and gnome-icon-theme-symbolic, so putting the > source tarball on our source mirror might be the best thing to do > (unless there's a proper alternative, of course). > gentoo distfiles are useful for something. I'll take care of icon-naming-utils. > Objections and other suggestions welcome. > > Cheers, > Lukas > > [1] http://tango.freedesktop.org/Tango_Icon_Library#Download > > ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Ionuț
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