2017-01-22 23:35 GMT+01:00 Josh Triplett <[email protected]>:
> On Sun, Jan 22, 2017 at 07:21:08PM +0000, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote:
>> appstream (0.10.6-1) unstable; urgency=medium
>> .
>> * New upstream version: 0.10.6
>> - APT will no longer download icons by default if
>> there are no GUI frontends available that use them (Closes: #847543)
>> - AppStream GUIs will need to tell APT that they require icons.
>
> Thanks!
I think this is a pretty sane compromise. Ideally in the long run we
either want to host all icons on an online server (making browsing the
software catalog offline a pain) or - which I like much more - use
binary diffs for the icon tarballs. For the latter, APT needs to be
extended to support this, and dak and maybe appstream-generator also
need to know about this.
In the meantime, not downloading icons when they are not needed sounds good :-)
Btw, if APT would support fetching data on-demand (as in: don't get
icons by default, but when I run a bi-weekly cronjob to explicitly
download them), this issue could be solved as well.
Cheers,
Matthias
