[Bug 262723] Re: Gnome and Human icon themes do not contain icon caches

[Mantas Kriaučiūnas]

Alexander Sack  wrote on 2009-09-28: 
> from what Sebastien told me the fix involved changes to the packaging tools ... which makes it a not-so-easy to backport for hardy etc.

AFAIK you are not right - this is stupid bug in /usr/sbin/update-icon-caches script, because update-icons-cache does not create icon-theme.cache file, it works only if icon-theme.cache file already exist in theme folder. Sergey Nizovtsev (reporter of this bug) already noticed this and correctly assigned this bug to gtk+2.0 package (update-icon-caches script is in libgtk2.0-bin package).
This bug was fixed in gtk+ 2.16.1-1, which was released on 12 April 2009, but Ubuntu developers forgot to include these improvements in Ubuntu Jaunty libgtk+2.0-bin package, released on 15 April 2009 and included only in libgtk2.0-bin 2.18.x package in Ubuntu Karmic, look at changelog.Debian :

gtk+2.0 (2.16.1-1) experimental; urgency=low
  [ Josselin Mouette ]
  * Make update-icon-caches always generate the cache, now that dh_icons is widespread.
-- Sebastian Dröge <slomo at debian.org>  Sun, 12 Apr 2009 11:21:58 +0200

So, please fix this bug in Ubuntu Jaunty and Hardy by applying attached
2 lines patch against update-icon-caches script, this is safe and
patched packages can go into ubuntu-updates repository.

** Attachment added: "Patch against update-icon-caches to make always generate the cache (fixes dh_icons postinst scripts)"
   http://launchpadlibrarian.net/33207683/update-icon-caches-dh_icons.patch

** Changed in: gtk+2.0 (Ubuntu)
       Status: Invalid => Confirmed

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