Bug#459653: xcursor-themes: please provides /usr/share/icons/default/index.theme

[Brice Goglin <Brice.Goglin@ens-lyon.org>]

Martin Braure de Calignon wrote:
> Package: xcursor-themes
> Version: 1.0.1-5
> Severity: normal
> Tags: patch
>
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> I was wondering why when I clicked on default cursor theme on gnome apparence, it did not use the theme I configured with
> update-alternatives --config x-cursor-themes
>
> I look into the x-cursor-themes source package, and did not find any installation of link
>  /usr/share/icons/default/index.theme -> /etc/alternatives/x-cursor-themes
>
> with a simple ln -s /etc/alternatives/x-cursor-themes /usr/share/icons/default/index.theme
> it gets the normal behaviour.
>
> so please add a dh_link etc/alternatives/x-cursor-themes usr/share/icons/default/index.theme
> in debian/rules :-)
>   

The postinst script of xcursor-themes is supposed to do that already. I
wonder what happened to your link. I just purged and reinstalled
xcursor-themes, it seems to work fine.

Brice