On Mon, Feb 26, 2018 at 2:53 AM, Axel Beckert <a...@debian.org> wrote: > Since 2.6.7-2, numix-gtk-theme has a "Breaks: murrine-themes (<= > 0.98.11)" without any mentioning (and especially without giving a > reason) in debian/changelog.
Yes, I should have mentioned in the debian/changelog. I have uploaded 2.6.7-3 just now that does have some explanation in the debian/changelog. The Breaks is intentional. As the maintainer of numix-gtk-theme, I feel that the Recommends on murrine-themes is wrong and I don't want it to be installed just because someone installs Numix. I am now the 3rd Debian Developer to object to the Murrine Maintainer's dependency decision. (I did speak to him privately earlier.) (And it's 4 if you count Steve Langasek acting in Ubuntu way back in 2011.) In Debian, Maintainers have a lot of power over their packages, maybe too much. I wish there were some lower level of conflict resolution besides the Technical Committee. This issue may end up needing to go there. By the way, I also object to the other open wontfix Murrine bug ( https://bugs.debian.org/883411 ) but I can't workaround that. It's an annoyance for, say, Debian MATE. Thanks, Jeremy Bicha
