Bug#680978: gnome-shell-extensions package fails to require the unzip package

Simon McVittie smcv at debian.org
Fri Oct 26 12:24:37 UTC 2012


reassign 680978 gnome-shell
retitle 680978 gnome-shell: installing from extensions.gnome.org requires unzip
found 680978 3.4.2-2
found 680978 3.6.1-3
thanks

On Mon, 09 Jul 2012 at 13:33:15 -0400, Al Grimstad wrote:
> Many users have struggled with trying to down load extensions from
> extensions.gnome.org. Typically they selected an extension but it failed to
> download. This problem was traced to their system's lacking unzip.

gnome-shell-extensions is just a collection of specific extensions,
so this is more of a bug in (the packaging of) gnome-shell itself.
Reassigning there.

unzip isn't strictly necessary to use gnome-shell, so it should perhaps
just be a Recommends (which are installed by default anyway).

    S



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