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 -----
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