Bug#689160: file-roller opens .deb files by default, instead of gdebi or gnome-packagekit

[Frederik Himpe]

On Sat, 2012-09-29 at 21:43 +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote:
> Le samedi 29 septembre 2012 à 18:23 +0200, Frederik Himpe a écrit : 
> > When double clicking on .deb file in a default Wheezy install (with GNOME 3),
> > the file is opened by default in file-roller. In this default install also
> > gdebi and gnome-packagekit (/usr/bin/gpk-install-local-file) are installed,
> > which are both also associated with the application/x-deb mime type. file-
> > roller should have a lower priority, so that one of the two others is selected
> > by default.
> 
> There is no priority, the default is set by gnome-session
> (in /etc/gnome/defaults.list).
> 
> The choice of file-roller is deliberate. You should not, you should
> never, EVER, install an unsigned .deb file unless you know what you do
> (e.g. you built it yourself). In which case you can do it by hand.

If Debian does not want to allow graphical installation of local .deb
package files by default, then gdebi should not be installed by default
in the first place, because that's exactly its only purpose.

Then if people do want this feature, they just install it by hand and
then it should become the default application for .deb files. That seems
much cleaner then the current messing with mime type association
priorities.

-- 
Frederik Himpe <fhimpe at telenet.be>