On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 11:43:17AM +0200, Ionut Biru wrote: > 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. Well, xfce4-settings already depends on gnome-icon-theme and uninstalling tango-icon-theme (`pacman -Rdd tango-icon-theme`) didn't break xfce4-settings for me. Not sure if it uses a few icons specific to tango-icon-theme, though. I doubt so. Debian lists tango-icon-theme as a recommendation for xfce4-settings also, so it probably only is a matter of having one or another icon theme. > > 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. Thanks! > > > > Objections and other suggestions welcome. > > > > Cheers, > > Lukas > > > > [1] http://tango.freedesktop.org/Tango_Icon_Library#Download > > > > ----- End forwarded message ----- > > > -- > Ionuț > P.S.: The related bug report I created yesterday [1] has just been reopened by Ionut. Thanks for that. [1] https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/27208