pychess 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 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
pychess, 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 1117089@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Emfox Zhou <emfox@debian.org> (supplier of updated pychess package)

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Format: 1.8
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2026 11:33:45 +0800
Source: pychess
Architecture: source
Version: 1.1.0-1
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Emfox Zhou <emfox@debian.org>
Changed-By: Emfox Zhou <emfox@debian.org>
Closes: 1079421 1117089 1145290
Changes:
 pychess (1.1.0-1) unstable; urgency=medium
 .
   * New maintainer (Closes: #1145290).
   * New upstream release 1.1.0.
   * Drop debian/patches/pr2235.patch, fixed upstream in 1.1.0.
   * Switch from gtksourceview3 to gtksourceview4 (Closes: #1079421).
   * Drop the obsolete gnome-icon-theme dependency (Closes: #1117089).
   * Fix the .desktop Exec key so the file types listed in MimeType are
     passed to the program.
   * Update pychess.metainfo.xml for the current AppStream specification.
   * Fix a stray latin-1 byte in learn/puzzles/mate_in_2.pgn.
   * Point Homepage at the current upstream location.
   * Bump Standards-Version to 4.7.4; drop the source Priority field, no
     longer recommended.
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