#1110234 O: oxygencursors -- Oxygen mouse cursor theme

Package:
wnpp
Source:
wnpp
Submitter:
Salvo 'LtWorf' Tomaselli
Date:
2026-02-15 14:07:02 UTC
Severity:
normal
Tags:
#1110234#5
Date:
2025-08-01 15:15:57 UTC
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I intend to orphan the oxygencursors package.

The package description is:
 This package contains the Oxygen cursor theme,
 originally created for KDE 4.
 .
 The cursors are available in numerous colors to
 match the style of any desktop.
#1110234#12
Date:
2025-08-05 10:58:15 UTC
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I would be willing to take over the maintenance of this package, as this
is the cursor theme I have been using on Debian for as long as I can
remember, despite not being a KDE user.

I see there is no VCS set in the package metadata, did you use one and
would you be OK with sharing it? Or did you work without a VCS?

It’s OK if there is none, I can probably generate a pseudo-history of
the source package by relying on debsnap.
#1110234#17
Date:
2025-08-05 10:59:59 UTC
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PS: Sorry for the broken Reply-To, I messed up when setting the previous
e-mail headers.
#1110234#26
Date:
2025-08-05 20:06:07 UTC
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Hey,

just a small update:

vv221 found out, that the source of this package is meanwhile copied into
src:oxygen. So the idea was born, that we may remove this package and replace
it  with binary packages built by src:oxygen. There is already an MR open to
do that:
https://salsa.debian.org/qt-kde-team/kde/oxygen/-/merge_requests/5
https://salsa.debian.org/qt-kde-team/extras/oxygencursors

Regards,

hefee
#1110234#31
Date:
2025-08-05 21:08:32 UTC
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Le Tue, Aug 05, 2025 at 10:06:07PM +0200, Hefee a écrit :

I second this removal request proposal. By making the binary package
name "oxygencursors" free again, it would avoid using an alternative
name for the package built from src:oxygen.

That way the update from src:oxygencursors to src:oxygen should be
painless during the Trixie → Forky upgrade, with no need for a dummy
package or such other dependeny trick.
#1110234#36
Date:
2025-12-26 15:35:23 UTC
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Hi,

as discussedn in this bug log it makes sense to remove the source package oxygencursors
and build the binary from source for oxygen.

Kind regards
    Andreas.
#1110234#45
Date:
2025-12-26 18:50:45 UTC
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Le Fri, Dec 26, 2025 at 04:35:23PM +0100, Andreas Tille a écrit :

Why are you turning this into a removal request before the takeover by src:oxygen is ready?
All this is going to achieve is the loss of the Oxygen cursors themes from Debian.

Are you planning to help with https://salsa.debian.org/qt-kde-team/kde/oxygen/-/merge_requests/5 ?
#1110234#50
Date:
2025-12-26 21:08:17 UTC
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Am Fri, Dec 26, 2025 at 07:50:45PM +0100 schrieb Antoine Le Gonidec:

I might have misinterpreted the bug log.  So using moreinfo tag which
will prevent removal until the tag is removed.

Thank you for the clarification.  I guess the new title fits the current
plan better and the tag should help keeping the package.

No, sorry.

Sorry for the confusion
    Andreas.