On 20 Apr, Josselin Mouette wrote: > > libgnomeprintui relies on gnome-icon-theme being present for the icons > it uses. The configure.in explicitly checks the presence of this > package, that's why I think it is needed.
It is probably needed as a build-depends, so that it can take advantage of the icons if they are present. Nevertheless, it seems to work quite fine without the icons when they are not present. I notice that when I select a printer, the descriptions present a default icon. This is a very minor loss and of no concern to me. As a practical consideration, anyone who is running gnome will have the icons as they are a dependency of gnome-core. People who do not have gnome installed are probably not interested in its icon support. > > Putting it as a Recommends: instead sounds reasonable as we haven't > received any reports of a failure without gnome-icon-theme installed. The criterion is not whether anyone reports a bug, it is what Debian policy has to say. Accordingly, if the package retains a significant portion of it's functionality without another package, then it does not depend upon that package. libgnomeprintui2.2-common does everything I expect it to do without gnome-icon-theme. The dependency relationship between libgnomeprintui2.2-common and gnome-icon-theme barely meets the standard of a "Suggests" let alone a "Recommends" or "Depends". But a suggestion or a recommendation makes no difference to me, so long as I can do without it, if I don't want it. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
