Re: Proper way to depend on an icon theme
On Sun, Mar 4, 2012 at 9:08 PM, Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 1:46 AM, Fernando Lemos wrote:
>
>> That would be perfect. Any tips on how to get this started? Should
>> this be discussed in debian-devel, or perhaps debian-desktop?
>
> The procedure is listed here:
>
> http://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/virtual-package-names-list.txt
Ah, damn, I somehow missed that... I was taking at the list, skipped
the instructions, sorry.
> Your suggestion of debian-desktop is a good one, I would suggest you
> use that as a step 0 to get the right virtual package name to use
> before posting on debian-devel.
>
> Once the new virtual package is named and defined in
> virtual-package-names-list.txt then you will want to file a bug (with
> patch if you know perl) about it. The checks you probably want are:
>
> Provides the needed icon names for the fd.o icon naming spec but
> doesn't provide the freedesktop-icon-theme virtual package.
>
> Provides the freedesktop-icon-theme virtual package but is missing some icons.
>
> Depends on freedesktop-icon-theme, uses more icons than
> freedesktop-icon-theme but doesn't depend on a more specific icon
> theme.
>
> Other checks might be needed too, can't think of any more right now though.
I think that's enough to get started. :-)
Thanks once again,
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