confy Depends on gnome-icon-theme, the icon theme formerly used by GNOME.
gnome-icon-theme was abandoned upstream years ago (the icon theme used
in modern GNOME is called Adwaita) and it should probably be removed
from Debian during the forky cycle.

Can this dependency be removed?

The dependency seems to have been added in 2021, but unfortunately
without any indication in the changelog for why.

The GNOME upstream recommendation for apps that rely on specific icons
at runtime is to include the necessary icon with the app. If the icon is
used to represent the app itself in menus and .desktop files, it should
normally have the app ID as its filename and be installed into the
default "hicolor" icon theme directory. If the icon is used internally
within the app, for example to be part of a button or a menu bar, it can
be loaded from a private data directory or embedded in the executable
using the GResource mechanism.

There are also adwaita-icon-theme (the icon theme used by modern GNOME,
which has been reduced to only the icons required by GNOME itself) and
adwaita-icon-theme-legacy (which is somewhat larger). Either of those
would be a better dependency than gnome-icon-theme, if they're
sufficient.

Thanks,
    smcv

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
confy, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.

A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to 1117082@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Manuel Traut <manut@debian.org> (supplier of updated confy package)

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Format: 1.8
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2026 12:02:40 +0200
Source: confy
Binary: confy
Architecture: source all
Version: 0.9.1-1
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: DebianOnMobile Maintainers <debian-on-mobile-maintainers@alioth-lists.debian.net>
Changed-By: Manuel Traut <manut@debian.org>
Description:
 confy      - Conference schedule viewer written in Python
Closes: 1117082
Changes:
 confy (0.9.1-1) unstable; urgency=medium
 .
   * New upstream release
   * Update standards version to 4.7.4, no changes needed.
   * Use adwaita-icon-theme instead of gnome
     Closes: #1117082
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