nautilus and open-terminal extension

[Emilien Klein]

Hi Michael and the Cinnamon team,

On 10/26/2014 09:50 PM, Emilien Klein wrote:
> Hi Michael,
> 
> 2014-10-26 14:22 GMT+01:00 Michael Biebl <biebl at debian.org>:
>> Hi,
>>
>> a couple of days ago, we had a user stop by on #debian-gnome, who was
>> confused because his nautilus had two "Open terminal" entries in the RMB
>> context menu.
>>
>> The issue here is, that newer versions of nautilus have that feature
>> built in and the user also had the nautilus-open-terminal package
>> installed, resulting in the duplicated menu entry.
> 
> Thanks for passing on the information and the result of your investigation.
> 
>> Now that nautilus-open-terminal is no longer required to provide that
>> functionality, we were wondering what to do about.
>>
>> Should the nautilus-open-terminal package be dropped from the archive
>> and nautilus have a Conflicts: nautilus-open-terminal, so the package is
>> removed on upgrades?
>> Or as an alternative, nautilus-open-terminal could become an empty dummy
>> package in jessie, which simply depends on a recent enough version of
>> nautilus and in jessie+1 we simply drop the package.
> 
> I'm not sure what might have been done in similar situations for other
> packages: what is the cleanest way to deprecate a package whose
> functionality is provided by another package? Whatever you recommend,
> I'll work on that solution with e.g. the Nautilus packagers.

Should we go with the alternative option proposed by Michael, making the
package empty and dropping it in jessie+1?

[snip]

>> I've also CCed the cinnamon team. Not sure if their nautilus fork nemo
>> would be affected by this and if they'd like to keep the extension for nemo.

Cinnamon team, please confirm removing this Nautilus extension won't
negatively impact nemo.

Thanks,
    +Emilien

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