Bug#408837: xcursor-themes: please clarify package description
Package: xcursor-themes
Version: 1.0.1-5
Severity: wishlist
Please consider clarifying the package description. (Policy 3.4: describe
it to a user (system administrator) who has never met it before so that
they have enough information to decide whether they want to install it).
I've just done a sarge -> etch upgrade and I'm now removing dummy packages.
One such is "xlibs-data". The description says it's safe to remove it,
but if I do, then "xcursor-themes" will disappear as well (auto-dependency).
Is that okay? The description doesn't help me decide.
No (non-dummy) package in etch seems to depend on, or even suggest,
xcursor-themes, but I would expect X to need _some_ cursors. Are the themes
merely additional, optional themed cursors, not needed for a working X? (In
other words, does X contain some even more "basic" cursors built in?)
Currently, in the short description "base X cursor themes", the word "base"
(and the fact that they came from a pretty core X package before the
transition) suggests that they are needed, the word "themes" suggests not.
The long description doesn't help.
[Maybe, to an X developer, "base X" means "part of X11 since the year
dot". But to the rest of us, it could mean fundamental, important.]
If they are in fact optional, perhaps the package description could be
something more like this?
Traditional X cursor themes (handhelds, redglass, whiteglass) for use
with the Xcursor library. They used to be part of the xlibs-data
package. They are now packaged separately because most users only need
the standard cursors built into X.
Please see libxcursor1 for more information.
OR, if they do matter, something like this?
Base X cursor themes (handhelds, redglass, and whiteglass) for use
with the Xcursor library. Most X installations require this package to
ensure that at least some cursors are available. These cursors used to
be part of the xlibs-data package.
Please see libxcursor1 for more information.
Regards,
(Dr) J S Bygott
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