Your message dated Wed, 8 Oct 2014 13:50:50 +0200
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and subject line Re: adwaita-icon-theme: should Provide and Replace
gnome-icon-theme
has caused the Debian Bug report #764447,
regarding adwaita-icon-theme: should Provide and Replace gnome-icon-theme
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Package: adwaita-icon-theme
Severity: normal
http://dedup.debian.net/compare/adwaita-icon-theme/gnome-icon-theme
The above would suggest that the Adwaita theme probably Provides and Replaces
(though not necessarily Conflicts with) gnome-icon-theme. Its dependencies
should be stated accordingly.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 3.16-2-686-pae (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=fi_FI.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fi_FI.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages adwaita-icon-theme depends on:
ii hicolor-icon-theme 0.13-1
pn libgtk-3-bin <none>
pn librsvg2-common <none>
adwaita-icon-theme recommends no packages.
adwaita-icon-theme suggests no packages.
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Hello Martin-Éric Racine.
On Wed, Oct 08, 2014 at 10:31:17AM +0300, Martin-Éric Racine wrote:
> Package: adwaita-icon-theme
> Severity: normal
>
> http://dedup.debian.net/compare/adwaita-icon-theme/gnome-icon-theme
>
> The above would suggest that the Adwaita theme probably Provides
> and Replaces (though not necessarily Conflicts with) gnome-icon-theme.
As you didn't explain I don't see why you think it does.
Provides means something else is a drop-in replacement providing
the same functionality. While adwaita-icon-theme is also an
icon theme (forked from gnome-icon-theme) it is not a drop-in
replacement for the old icon theme.
Additionally, Replaces means the package overwrites files shipped
by another package. Which would that be?
Also using Replaces without also using Conflicts or Breaks is a
policy violation.
I'd very much wish that people focus on finding things which actually
have practical value instead of just hunting for potential policy
violations. Specially when it seems like you haven't even bothered
reading the policy and just wildly guess. :(
I'm sure you can find applications which crashes or somehow otherwise
behave suboptimally. Maybe even find packages which fails to install,
upgrade or uninstall. Those would be much more useful bug reports.
(If you actually find a policy violation you should use (atleast)
severity serious and refer to the part of the policy that is being
violated as justification.)
Thanks for attempting to help out with suggestions on how to
improve Debian, but the result when you do random guesses
is that you're taking up time from someone who could have used
that time to actually improve debian.
> Its dependencies should be stated accordingly.
Which they are....
Regards,
Andreas Henriksson
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