Bug#424923: nautilus: Vague error message: 'correct extension for "DOS/Windows executable"'

[A. Costa]

On Fri, 18 May 2007 20:38:19 +0200
Josselin Mouette <joss at debian.org> wrote:

> http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/s/shared-mime-info/

OK...

	% feta install http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/s/shared-mime-info/shared-mime-info_0.16-3_i386.deb
	{ ...stuff deleted... }
	Running: dpkg --install '/tmp/shared-mime-info_0.16-3_i386.deb'
	dpkg - warning: downgrading shared-mime-info from 0.21-2 to 0.16-3.
	{ ...stuff deleted... }

...then I click the 'SpaceMonger.exe' desktop icon, and it works fine.
Then I upgraded again:

	feta install /var/cache/apt/archives/shared-mime-info_0.21-2_i386.deb
	Running: dpkg --install '/var/cache/apt/archives/shared-mime-info_0.21-2_i386.deb'
	{ ...stuff deleted... }
	Unpacking replacement shared-mime-info ...
	Setting up shared-mime-info (0.21-2) ...

After which, clicking the 'SpaceMonger.exe' desktop icon produces the
aforementioned "Cannot open SpaceMonger.exe" error.

> > > Also, does it happen if you upgrade nautilus to the 2.18 version
> > > in unstable?
> > 
> > Unfortunately that seems difficult today; to upgrade nautilus
> > requires 'apt-get' removing several packages I'd like to keep.
> > Usually after waiting a few days or weeks 'unstable' settles down
> > and allows painless upgrades, but right now 'unstable' is...
> > unstable.
> 
> All packages depending on nautilus-related libraries (libeel and
> libnautilus-burn) have been rebuilt for some time now. It's probably
> just apt-get not being clever enough; you can upgrade all related
> packages at once, explicitly.

Maybe, yet I tried that earlier:

	% apt-get install nautilus
	{ ...stuff deleted... }
	The following packages will be REMOVED:
	  gtk2-engines-highcontrast swf-player sylpheed-claws-gtk2
	{ ...stuff deleted... }
	The following packages will be upgraded:
	  gimp gimp-data gnome-accessibility-themes gnome-keyring gtk2-engines
	{ ...stuff deleted... }
	39 upgraded, 16 newly installed, 3 to remove and 272 not upgraded.
	Need to get 45.4MB of archives.

I suppose that I could let it remove those three packages, then
reinstall them later -- assuming that I can do that with 'apt-get'.
But on my dialup connection 45.4MB takes about four hours and today I
need that bandwidth for other jobs.  Well, maybe in a few hours,
tonight, or tomorrow...

HTH...