I have also been looking into polishing the package from the PPA. FWIW, I found the following Google Code site for the Faenza Icon Theme, which holds a download option for "source tarballs" containing the SVGs: http://code.google.com/p/faenza-icon-theme/downloads/list I think ideally debian/rules should really generate the PNGs from the latest faenza-sources_*.tar.gz tarball found there.