Bug#931912: Please do not Depends/Recommends against gnome-icon-theme
Package: info
Version: 6.6.0.dfsg.1-2
Severity: normal
Hi,
I see that the info package Recommends gnome-icon-theme, I don't think
it's a good idea.
gnome-icon-theme is not maintained anymore. Also I don't think it's up
to a leaf application to define the icon theme that should be installed.
The best solution is to use a xdg icon name and expect that the user
will have an icon theme installed.
If you want a "light bulb" icon, you should probably use the name
"dialog-information" icon which is part of the xdg standard (see
https://standards.freedesktop.org/icon-naming-spec/icon-naming-spec-latest.html)
I see this icon being part of most of the icon theme.
Kind regards,
Laurent Bigonville
-- System Information:
Debian Release: bullseye/sid
APT prefers unstable-debug
APT policy: (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental-debug'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 4.19.0-5-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_FIRMWARE_WORKAROUND
Locale: LANG=fr_BE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_BE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=fr_BE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: SELinux: enabled - Mode: Permissive - Policy name: refpolicy
Versions of packages info depends on:
ii install-info 6.6.0.dfsg.1-2
ii libc6 2.28-10
ii libtinfo6 6.1+20181013-2
Versions of packages info recommends:
ii gnome-icon-theme 3.12.0-3
Versions of packages info suggests:
pn texinfo-doc-nonfree <none>
-- no debconf information
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