Re: Proposed release goal : icon caches
Hi,
On Fri, 13 Jul 2007, Josselin Mouette wrote:
> I would like to propose the following release goal for lenny: all
> packages shipping icons in /usr/share/icons/$theme should update the
> icon caches accordingly.
>
> Icon caches help improving performance of the desktop. However, the icon
> cache specification was made without much thought and doesn't cope with
> package managers at all; this is why this wasn't done for etch. We need
> to do it now, however, as many locally-installed applications or
> packages are breaking users' systems by introducing icon caches that are
> never expired.
>
> The plan is currently as follows:
> 1. Add a dh_icons script to debhelper. This was already done in
> version 5.0.51. This first version doesn't create icon caches
> but updated them if they already exist. This is what allows a
> smooth transition to the later case.
Ubuntu already has a "dh_iconcache" AFAIK. What approach did they use? Is
there anything for us to reuse?
If this new mechanism is going to replace the mechanism invented by
Ubuntu, it would make sense to reuse the same script name.
Cheers,
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