Bug#261675: file-roller: thinks it can handle zip-archives without unzip installed.

[Andreas Krüger]

Package: file-roller
Version: 2.4.4-1
Severity: normal

As has been noted before (see bug 223019), file-roller cannot handle
zip-archives if the unzip package is not installed.

However, even if the unzip package being installed, file-roller still
claims it is responsible for zip-archives.  At least that is how I
interpret various lines I found in the MIME configuration.  Try

   grep -E '[^gb]zip' `dpkg -L file-roller | grep mime`

and you'll see what I mean.

In my opinion, this is a bug.  If file-roller cannot handle zip archives
(and it cannot relyably do so, as long as it does not outrightly depend
on unzip), it should not take responsibility for that MIME type.

Suggested fix: Make file-roller depend on unzip.

This would also fix bug 223019.

Regards, and thank you for providing fine software,

Andreas

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.4.26-1-686
Locale: LANG=de_DE@euro, LC_CTYPE=de_DE@euro

Versions of packages file-roller depends on:
ii  bzip2                       1.0.2-1      A high-quality block-sorting file 
ii  gconf2                      2.6.2-1      GNOME configuration database syste
ii  gzip                        1.3.5-7      The GNU compression utility
ii  libart-2.0-2                2.3.16-3     Library of functions for 2D graphi
ii  libatk1.0-0                 1.6.1-2      The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libaudiofile0               0.2.6-3      Open-source version of SGI's audio
ii  libbonobo2-0                2.6.2-4      Bonobo CORBA interfaces library
ii  libbonoboui2-0              2.6.1-1      The Bonobo UI library
ii  libc6                       2.3.2.ds1-11 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libesd0                     0.2.29-1     Enlightened Sound Daemon - Shared 
ii  libgconf2-4                 2.6.2-1      GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libgcrypt1                  1.1.12-4     LGPL Crypto library - runtime libr
ii  libglade2-0                 1:2.4.0-1    Library to load .glade files at ru
ii  libglib2.0-0                2.4.2-1      The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnome2-0                 2.6.1-8      The GNOME 2 library - runtime file
ii  libgnomecanvas2-0           2.6.1.1-2    A powerful object-oriented display
ii  libgnomeui-0                2.6.1.1-3    The GNOME 2 libraries (User Interf
ii  libgnomevfs2-0              2.6.1.1-5    The GNOME virtual file-system libr
ii  libgnomevfs2-common         2.6.1.1-5    The GNOME virtual file-system libr
ii  libgnutls7                  0.8.12-5     GNU TLS library - runtime library
ii  libgtk2.0-0                 2.4.3-3      The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libice6                     4.3.0-7      Inter-Client Exchange library
ii  libjpeg62                   6b-9         The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG 
ii  liborbit2                   1:2.10.2-1.1 libraries for ORBit2 - a CORBA ORB
ii  libpango1.0-0               1.4.0-4      Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libpopt0                    1.7-4        lib for parsing cmdline parameters
ii  libsm6                      4.3.0-7      X Window System Session Management
ii  libtasn1-0                  0.1.2-1      Manage ASN.1 structures (runtime)
ii  libx11-6                    4.3.0-7      X Window System protocol client li
ii  libxml2                     2.6.10-3     GNOME XML library
ii  scrollkeeper                0.3.14-7     A free electronic cataloging syste
ii  tar                         1.13.93-3    GNU tar
ii  xlibs                       4.3.0-7      X Window System client libraries m
ii  zlib1g                      1:1.2.1-5    compression library - runtime

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