Re: The misterious case of oxygen-icons

Albert Astals Cid <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.kde.releases,gmane.comp.kde.artists
Message-ID <1684119.3anG5IP3uM@xps>
El Divendres, 17 d'agost de 2012, a les 01:03:29, Friedrich W. H. Kossebau va 
escriure:
> Hi,
> 
> Am Donnerstag, 16. August 2012, 23:28:18 schrieb Albert Astals Cid:
> > I am quite confused as about how we handle oxygen-icons release wise.
> > 
> > First some facts:
> >  * Technically oxygen-icons is not part of the SC since it lives in
> > 
> > trunk/kdesupport and not in trunk/KDE/
> > http://websvn.kde.org/trunk/kdesupport/oxygen-icons/
> > 
> >  * We release oxygen-icons with the SC
> >  
> > 	http://download.kde.org/stable/4.9.0/src/oxygen-
icons-4.9.0.tar.xz.mirror
> > 	li
> > 
> > st * We tag oxygen-icons with the SC
> > 
> > 	http://websvn.kde.org/tags/KDE/4.9.0/oxygen-icons/
> > 	
> >  * We do *not* branch oxygen-icons
> >  
> > 	http://websvn.kde.org/branches/KDE/4.9/
> > 	http://websvn.kde.org/branches/kdesupport/
> > 
> > So my confusion is two fold:
> >  * Why are we releasing it with the SC if it's not part of it?
> >  * Why is it not branched?
> > 
> > And related to the second:
> >  * What should we package with the tarball of oxygen-icons for KDE SC
> >  4.9.1?
> 
> Another question from me:
> Where is the minimum dependency of kdelibs/kde-runtime on oxygen-icons
> documented?

Do we really have a runtime dependency on oxygen-icons? My limited knowledge 
in the matter is that icon names are standarized thus you can use oxygen-icons 
or AlbertAwesomeImages (aai for friends) and it'll still work.

Can someone with more knowledge confirm or reject?

Cheers,
  Albert

> 
> As it is a run-time dependecy it is absent from the build system checks from
> what I see, but I could also not find any README.packagers which lists
> oxygen- icons as hard dependency. Seems packagers create a hard dependency
> on oxygen- icons package anyway, but still would be nice to have that
> documented (to have something to refer to).
> 
> This question came up today for Calligra if the dependency on a certain
> kdelibs also implicitely brings in the Oxygen icon set, so the icons can be
> expected to be available.
> 
> Cheers
> Friedrich
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